Gun Sports: Finance

Tobias Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much funding Sport England has provided for training of  (a) pistol shooters and  (b) shooters of other weapons in the last 12 months.

Gerry Sutcliffe: Sport England advise that over the past 12 months they have awarded the English Target Shooting Federation (ETSF) £194,726 in funding. This funding forms part of a wider £343,000 award made to the ETSF in 2007 to support the English shooting team at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
	The award is paid over three years from 2007 until 2010 and relates to the rifle, pistol, shotgun and full bore disciplines. It supports coaching, sport science training camps, athlete personal awards, warm weather training and general support costs.
	The proportion of the award that is used to fund pistol shooting is an issue which is determined by the ETSF rather than Sport England.

National Lottery: Expenditure

Jeremy Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much each of the National Lottery distributors spent on  (a) surveys and  (b) Government relations in (i) 2006-07, (ii) 2007-08 and  (c) 2008-09.

Si�n Simon: The information requested is not held centrally, and to collect this would be at disproportionate cost.

National Lottery: Manpower

Jeremy Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many full-time equivalent staff each National Lottery distributor employs.

Si�n Simon: Staff numbers are provided in each Distributor's Annual Report and Accounts, copies of which are available in the Libraries of the House.

Sports: Public Participation

Jeremy Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much his Department has spent on its  (a) Active People Survey 1 and  (b) Active People Survey 2.

Gerry Sutcliffe: The Active People Surveys were delivered and funded by Sport England. The cost of Active People Survey 1 was 5,538,145. The cost of Active People Survey 2 was 3,152,272. DCMS provided a financial contribution of 885,274 to Active People Survey 2.

Church Commissioners: Land

Nick Gibb: To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners what the policy of the Church Commissioners is on the use of land which is owned by them for the production of food.

Stuart Bell: The Commissioners' farm land is let to tenants on Agricultural Holdings Act Tenancies and Farm Business Tenancies.

Departmental Advertising

Vincent Cable: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport on which initiatives of his Department and its agencies expenditure on advertising has been incurred in each of the last five years; how much was spent on each such initiative; and which such initiatives were offered for tender through the Central Office of Information.

Chris Mole: Expenditure for the Department for Transport's advertising campaigns from the 2004-05 fiscal year is in the following table. The majority of campaign advertising investment by the Department is in support of the THINK! road safety and the Act on CO2 campaigns. Major advertising investment by Executive Agencies has been by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, for the sale of marks, vehicle excise duty enforcement and electronic vehicle licensing.
	
		
			   
			  Organi sation  Campaign  2004-05  2005-06  2006-07  2007-08  2008-09 
			 DfT(C) THINK! 8.75 million 11.57 million (1)7.42 million 1.78 million (1)11.67 million (1)12.65 million 
			  Transport Direct 240,000 865,000 405,000 (1)32,000 370,000 (1)629,000 42,000 
			  Act on CO2   (1)2.49 million 1.1 million (1)3.56 million (1)4.7 million 
			  Airport Security(1)1.01 million  
			 DVLA Sale of Marks 2.534 million 2.335 million 3.006 million 3.124 million 3.55 million 
			  VED Enforcement (1)5.961 million (1)4.165 million (1)5.596 million 3.754 million (1)3.791 million 
			  Accelerated Issue of Harmonised Registration Certificate (1)1.424 million (1)1.211 million
			  Electronic Vehicle Licensing(1)2.445 million (1)2.415 million 
			  Others (1)1.026 million (1)677,000 (1)799,000 (1)676,000 (1)982,000 
			 HA Introduction of Traffic Officer Service  330,000
			  Traffic Radio Print Advertising99,000  
			  Safety, Strategy and Research Advertising12,000  
			  Severe Weather Advertising(1)40,000 6,000  
			  Roadworker Safety Campaign 60,600 
			  'Don't be that Guy' campaign 67,000 
			  Pedestrian Intrusion Campaign (1)29,700 
			  Dartford Crossing 74,600 
			  Summer Getaway 63,400 
			 GCDA Advertising car and dispatch services  5,000 0,500  2,800 
			 MCA Dial 999 for the Coastguard 9,100 15,500 9,900 15,100 117,700 
			 VCA N/A  
			 VOSA N/A  
			 DSA Passplus (1)32,000 (1)15,000 (1)148,000 (1)14,200 (1)6,500 
			  Learning to Drive(1)52,600 (1)349,300 
			  Driver CPC(1)4,500 (1)118,700 
			  Enhanced Rider Scheme(1)20,000 (1)51,300 
			  Eco-Safe DSA (1)4,500 
			 (1) Procured via The Central Office of Information.

Road Signs and Markings

Greg Knight: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport when blue driver location signs were introduced by his Department; how many have been installed on the road network to date; and at what cost to the public purse.

Chris Mole: For more than 30 years, distance marker posts have been provided at 100 metre intervals along each hard shoulder of motorways. Marker posts enable maintenance contractors to identify exactly where repair works are needed. They also show the direction to the nearest motorway emergency phone.
	Driver Location Signs were introduced in 2003 and approximately 16,000 signs have been installed on 80 per cent. of the motorway network at a cost of 5.9 million. During 2009-10 signs are being installed on the remaining parts of the Motorway Network at an additional cost of 1.6 million.
	Driver Location Signs are more visible to the travelling public and this enables:
	Motorists to quickly identify their location.
	Emergency Services to get to incident scenes more quickly due to them receiving more accurate incident location information.
	Research carried out on trial sections showed that response times of emergency service organisations were 10 per cent. quicker than previous responses to similar incidents. Getting the emergency services to the scene of an incident more efficiently ultimately leads to incidents being cleared more quickly.

Agriculture: Subsidies

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many single farm payment cheques were issued by the Rural Payments Agency for amounts less than  (a) 60,  (b) 40,  (c) 20,  (d) 10 and  (e) 1 in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2009.

Jim Fitzpatrick: The number of single payment scheme (SPS) cheque payments issued by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) for the bands and scheme years specified in the question are as follows:
	
		
			   Number of payments 
			  Band  SPS 2006  SPS 2007  SPS 2008( 1) 
			 40.01-60.00 2,417 807 299 
			 20.01-40.00 1,861 492 122 
			 10.01-20.00 546 69 14 
			 1.01-10.00 80 14 3 
			 0.01-1.00 2 6 3 
			 (1)( )A change in EU Regulations meant that RPA stopped making payments by cheque on 15 October 2008. All payments are now made via BACS. 
		
	
	Payment for the 2009 SPS scheme year commences on 1 December.

Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

Daniel Rogerson: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department and its predecessor of  (a) research into bovine tuberculosis,  (b) support from (i) local authority health officers and (ii) the Veterinary Laboratories Agency in respect of bovine tuberculosis and (c) any other support provided in respect of bovine tuberculosis (A) between 1986 and 1996 and (B) since 1997.

Jim Fitzpatrick: The information is as follows.
	 Research
	The table provides a summary of TB research cost to the Department from 1998 to 2008-09 and the amount spent on the surveillance contract with the Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) and on the Randomised Badger Culling Trial (RBCT).
	
		
			  TB expenditure on research between 1998 and 2009 (GB) 
			   million 
			   RBCT( 1)  VLA( 2)  Other research 
			 1998-99 2.9 1.9 2.5 
			 1999-2000 4.6 2.4 3.8 
			 2000-01 6.6 3.5 5.3 
			 2001-02 6 3.7 6.1 
			 2002-03 6.6 4.1 6.5 
			 2003-04 7.3 5.3 7 
			 2004-05 7.2 4.9 5.7 
			 2005-06 6.2 7.5 6.5 
			 2006-07 1.6 7.5 7.8 
			 2007-08 0.03 7 8.5 
			 2008-09 0 5.9 7.7 
			 (1) Figure does not include research into culling methods or the badger population survey (709,400 in 2005-06 and 834,700 in 2006-07). (2 )Surveillance activity undertaken by the Veterinary Laboratory Agency (VLA) includes all DEFRA funded work carried out by the VLA relating to TB in cattle and badgers including the supply of Tuberculin.  Note: All financial data are actual expenditure only which have been incurred in the specified financial year. 
		
	
	A finance review of all bTB expenditure and income in the last 10 years has recently been undertaken. The review has validated all data associated with bovine Tuberculosis expenditure to improve the quality of data provided. As such the table above has been amended to reflect the outcome of the review. This is also available on the DEFRA website.
	We are unable to provide figures prior to 1998.
	 Council health officers and VLA
	DEFRA does not receive financial support from local council health officers or the Veterinary Laboratories Agency in respect of bovine tuberculosis, however we are committed to tackling this disease in partnership with all DEFRA's delivery bodies and the local authorities.

Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

Daniel Rogerson: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what consideration he has given to bringing  (a) camelids,  (b) sheep,  (c) goats and  (d) pigs within the scope of the regulatory regime for control of tuberculosis in England.

Jim Fitzpatrick: DEFRA takes TB in all species, not just cattle, seriously and is committed to dealing with it. Existing legal provisions do allow DEFRA to restrict movements to and from any herd/flock of farmed (mammalian) species suspected of being infected by bovine tuberculosisso as to reduce the risk of disease spread. In resolving TB problems in such species, DEFRA relies on the cooperation of animal owners to agree testing, slaughter and compensation arrangements.
	A review to identify possible new controls that might help better control TB risks to/from non-bovine species is in hand. Any new policy would need to be effective, affordable and proportionate to the animal and public health risks.

Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

Daniel Rogerson: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of average payment per head to abattoirs for the dispatch of bovine tuberculosis reactor, inconclusive or dangerous contact cattle  (a) between 1986 and 1996 and  (b) since 1997.

Jim Fitzpatrick: No such estimate has been made. For most cattle compulsorily slaughtered on TB control grounds, DEFRA has received a net payment from abattoirs rather than incurred a cost.
	Meat Hygiene Service officials inspect carcasses of such cattle when slaughtered in licensed abattoirs, a small proportion of TB affected cattle are condemned as unfit for human consumption e.g. if TB lesions are identified in more than one part of the carcase. In such cases DEFRA does makes a payment to the abattoir to cover its disposal costs. It is not possible to provide details of slaughter costs in the form requested: typically an abattoir will receive batches of cattle being slaughtered on disease control grounds rather than single animalsif one (or more) of these animals is condemned, the cost to DEFRA will be offset by the total salvage value received from those passed as fit for human consumption.

Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

Daniel Rogerson: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many cattle have been slaughtered as bovine tuberculosis reactors, inconclusives or dangerous contacts in each financial year since 1986.

Jim Fitzpatrick: The following table provides the number of cattle slaughtered in England as bovine tuberculosis reactors, inconclusive reactors and direct contacts. Data for these three categories of reactors is available in calendar years for 1998 to 2008.
	I am unable to provide data for TB reactors, inconclusives or direct contacts before 1998.
	
		
			   Reactors slaughtered  Inconclusive reactors slaughtered  Direct contact reactors slaughtered  Total animals slaughtered under Bovine TB measures 
			 2008 26,038 487 930 27,455 
			 2007 18,543 444 807 19,794 
			 2006 14,585 361 1,061 16,007 
			 2005 20,145 413 2,577 23,135 
			 2004 15,093 351 1,862 17,306 
			 2003 15,120 454 1,977 17,551 
			 2002 15,482 580 2,381 18,443 
			 2001 3,804 154 480 4,438 
			 2000 6,029 210 951 7,190 
			 1999 5,929 250 863 7,042 
			 1998 4,102 201 724 5,027 
			  Note: 2008 data was downloaded from DEFRA's Animal Health database (Vetnet) on 2 March 2009. 2007-05 data was downloaded on 18 March 2008. 2004-1998 data was downloaded on 7 March 2006.

Departmental Non-Domestic Rates

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many properties owned by his Department were liable for payment of  (a) business rates and  (b) empty property rates in each of the last five years; and what the bill for each was in each such year.

Dan Norris: The information is in the following tables.
	
		
			  DEFRA Freehold rate liabilities for 2005-10 
			   Number of properties  With a liability of () 
			 2005-06 32 3,301,468 
			 2006-07 31 3,442,168 
			 2007-08 40 5,408,038 
			 2008-09 40 4,196,976 
			 2009-10 35 4,442,386 
			 Total  20,791,036 
		
	
	
		
			  Empty property relief for 2005-10 
			   Number of properties  With a liability of () 
			 2005-06 2 24,095 
			 2006-07 3 13,477 
			 2007-08 1 1,006 
			 2008-09 1 94,551 
			 2009-10 n/a n/a 
			 Total  133,131

Departmental Pay

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 
	(1)  how many staff in his Department received remuneration including benefits of 100,000 or more in 2008-09;
	(2)  how many of his Department's staff received annual remuneration including benefits of 100,000 or more in 2008-09.

Dan Norris: The table shows the number of staff (excludes workers employed under a contract for services) who received remuneration(1), including benefits of 100,000 or more in 2008-09, in core-DEFRA and its Executive agencies, Animal Health (AH), Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD), Marine and Fisheries Agency (MFA), Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA), Rural Payments Agency (RPA), Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) and the Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA).
	(1) For the purposes of responding to the question, remuneration has been interpreted as including base salary, bonuses, allowances and superannuation costs.
	
		
			  Department/agency  Number of staff receiving remuneration, including benefits of 100,000 or more in 2008-09 
			 Core-DEFRA 75 
			 AH 4 
			 VMD 1 
			 MFA 1 
			 RPA 2 
			 VLA 3 
			 CEFAS 1 
			 FERA 4

Departmental Postal Services

Michael Weir: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much his Department spent on Royal Mail services in each of the last two years.

Dan Norris: The combined spend of core-DEFRA and the DEFRA Executive agencies from information held centrally is as follows:
	
		
			  Financial year   million 
			 2007-08 5.58 
			 2008-09 5.32

Departmental Procurement

Lorely Burt: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what progress his Department has made in implementing the recommendations of the Glover Report in its procurement processes.

Dan Norris: DEFRA's progress in implementing the 12 recommendations in the Glover Report is:
	R1. By 2010, contract opportunities above 20,000 across the whole public sector should be advertised electronically with standard indicative contract value ranges, and accessible through a single, free, easy to search online portal.
	This is being implemented as part of the DEFRA's Integated Commercial Strategy and will go live in 2010.
	R2. Government should issue all tender documentation electronically by 2010 and this should be kept as brief as possible. Businesses should be permitted to tender electronically for all public sector contracts by 2010; no paper only tenders should be required after this date, with an ambition for all tenders to be electronic by 2012.
	This too will be implemented as part of our Integrated Commercial Strategy We are planning to be fully compliant well in advance of the 2012 deadline.
	R3. Details of contract awardees should be published online in a standard format within 48 days of contract signature, accessible via the single portal by 2010.
	DEFRA has dedicated procurement pages on its external website and will include information on contracts awarded. It is DEFRA's intention to provide this information through the cross Government online portal.
	R4. Tendering opportunities thought especially suitable for SMEs or consortia of SMEs should be flagged by the procurer during the advertising process. Government should provide strategic and detailed guidance for procuring authorities on assessing suitable contracts for flagging, based on risk, value and market maturity.
	Tendering opportunities for Government contracts are governed by the principles of Managing Public Money and the public procurement directives. DEFRA very much welcomes the participation of SMEs either individually or collectively. It is a key element of our Integrated Commercial Strategy to maximise the diversity of our supplier base including SMEs or consortia thereof and the structuring of all procurements will be done in such a way as to encourage this. We will also be encouraging prime contractors to optimise the use of SMEs in their sub-contracting.
	R5. Qualification criteria that are not specific to a sector should be standardised and incorporated in all pre-qualification questionnaires so that businesses do not need to repeatedly submit the same core information in different formats.
	DEFRA has included this as a requirement within the Integrated Commercial Strategy. Technical solutions for storing and disseminating supplier data and criteria are being considered as part of this process. It is expected that this will be fully in place by late autumn 2010.
	R6. Procurers should give businesses the opportunity to provide details of all previous relevant experience when bidding for contracts, not just public sector experience. This should be taken into account when selecting successful tenderers.
	DEFRA has already introduced this within current tender processes.
	R7. Procurers should ensure that, where they rely on a particular accreditation scheme or standard as part of the process of prequalification or contract award, that they take a flexible approach. Businesses should be given the opportunity to provide evidence that they can meet the contract requirements by reference to other similar equivalent accreditations or standards they may already holdespecially where these have been recognised or required by other public sector procurers.
	DEFRA has already introduced this within current tender processes.
	R8. Departments should use their Innovation Procurement Plans to set out how procurement aligns with their overall commercial strategy, encourages innovation and gives advanced notice of long-term procurement plans.
	DEFRA is finalising an Innovation Procurement Plan and expect to be able to issue this as part of its Integrated Commercial Strategy. Innovation in procurement is itself one of the key objectives of developing this strategy.
	R9. Government should encourage wider use of outcome-based specifications across the public sector, as a means of driving innovation.
	DEFRA has already introduced this within current tender processes.
	R10. Government should expect and enable prime contractors to make their subcontracting opportunities accessible through the single, online portal created in Recommendation 1.
	DEFRA will be encouraging this as part of its Integrated Commercial Strategy.
	R11. Through contract management, Government should ensure that SMEs and other firms acting as sub-contractors obtain contract conditions, including promptness of payment terms that are no worse than those applicable to the prime contractor.
	DEFRA already includes this requirement within all major contracts and is incorporating it into standard terms and conditions for all contracts.
	R12. The Committee recommends that all central Government Departments should report annually on the value of their contract spend with SMEs, creating a reliable single source of quantitative data which can be used to inform future policy decisions and evaluate the recommendations in this report.
	DEFRA now has a system in place that allows it to record full records of its suppliers including a classification for SMEs. It is expected that reporting will be available by or before March 2010.

Departmental Travel

Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much his Department has spent on  (a) Ministerial cars and drivers,  (b) taxis,  (c) train travel,  (d) the use of helicopters,  (e) airline tickets and  (f) chartered aeroplanes in each year since 1997.

Dan Norris: DEFRA came into being in June 2001. The Government Car and Despatch Agency is responsible for providing ministerial cars and drivers. I refer the hon. Member to the answer provided by my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Chris Mole) of 21 July 2009,  Official Report, columns 1218-1220W.
	From information held centrally, the core-Department's expenditure on taxis for the financial year 2006-07 onwards is:
	
		
			  Financial year   
			 2006-07 268,095 
			 2007-08 346,458 
			 2008-09 299,401 
			 2009-10 to September 59,996 
		
	
	From information held centrally, the core-Department's expenditure on air and train travel from July 2006 is:
	
		
			   
			   Air  Rail 
			 July 2006-March 2007 1,107,106 1,868,731 
			 April 2007-March 2008 1,505,097 1,978,850 
			 April 2008-March 2009 1,049,256 1,733,417 
			 April 2009-August 2009 663,886 936,916 
		
	
	There is no information held centrally on the use of helicopters and chartered aeroplanes.

Dogs

Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many attacks by dogs on people of each age category were reported in each of the last five years.

Jim Fitzpatrick: Information showing the number of defendants found guilty at all courts for offences under section 3(1) and 3(3) of the 1991 Dangerous Dogs Act in England and Wales from 2003 to 2007 (latest available) can be viewed in the following table. The information provides both the number of cases where injuries were inflicted and also the number of cases where no injuries were inflicted.
	The Court Proceedings Database held by the Ministry of Justice does not hold specific information on the age of the victims beyond descriptions provided by the statutes under which prosecutions are brought.
	Data for 2008 are planned for publication at the end of January 2010.
	
		
			  Number of defendants found guilty at all courts for selected offences under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, England and Wales 2003 - 07( 1,2) 
			Found guilty 
			  Offence description  Section of the Act  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007 
			 Owner or person in charge allowing dog to be dangerously out of control in a public place injuring any person S.3(1) 302 350 403 458 456 
			 Owner or person in charge allowing dog to be dangerously out of control in a public place, no injury being caused S.3(1) 171 167 168 160 205 
			 Owner or person in charge allowing dog to enter a non-public place and injure any person S.3(3) 33 25 25 29 27 
			 Owner or person in charge allowing dog to enter a non-public place causing reasonable apprehension of injury to a person S.3(3) 10 5 9 11 15 
			 Total  516 547 605 658 703 
			 (1) The number proceeded against and number found guilty statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences, the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. (2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by police forces and the courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.  Source: Evidence and Analysis unitOffice for Criminal Justice

Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 14 July 2009,  Official Report, column 229W, on the Futuresource Conference, what the cost of the quantitative and qualitative research commissioned by the Waste and Resources Action Programme on Principles of a good collection service was; and which contractors provided the research.

Dan Norris: The quantitative and qualitative research, carried out by Brook Lyndhurst and ICM on behalf of the Local Government Association and the Waste and Resources Action Programme, cost 38,600. The research was to ensure that the principles of a good recycling service, called for by the fifth report (2006-07) of the Communities and Local Government Select Committee, were firmly based on evidence of the views and priorities of the public.

Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what guidance or advice the Waste and Resources Action Programme has issued on the operation of  (a) closed-lid policies and  (b) no side waste policies in respect of the collection of household waste, other than in its guidance on alternative weekly collections.

Dan Norris: WRAP has published no additional guidance on either subject.

Litter

Gordon Marsden: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what policies his Department has in place to reduce levels of littering in England.

Jim Fitzpatrick: Local Environment Quality Surveys for England since 2001 show that while there has been some improvement in that time nearly a fifth of areas surveyed still fall below satisfactory levels for litter and about a quarter of people surveyed admit to littering. Each year the Government funds the campaigning charity Keep Britain Tidy (5 million in 2009-10) to raise awareness of the problem, campaign for changes in behaviour and offer technical support and advice to national, regional and local government.
	Local authorities, who have a legal duty to clear litter from public places, have been given the powers they need to tackle those that litter, most recently through provisions in the Clean Neighbourhood and Environment Act 2005. Information and guidance is provided to local authorities to help them to improve their enforcement and street cleansing services.

Marine Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund

Mark Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what projects are being funded by the Marine Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund in 2009-10.

Dan Norris: Projects commissioned in 2008-09 and drawing funds from the Marine Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund in 2009-10 are:
	
		
			   Project 
			 MEPF 08/02 Marine Aggregate Integrated Assessment. 
			 MEPF 08/P14 Marine Aggregates supply as part of a sustainable mix. 
			 MEPF 08/P27 Derek the Dredger and the Marine Biologists. 
			 MEPF 08/P33 Mitigation of Marine Aggregate Dredging ImpactsBenchmarking Equipment, Practices and Technologies against Global Best Practice. 
			 MEPF 08/P37 Effects of aggregate dredging on marine food web structure and function. 
			 MEPF 08/P39 Impacts of Marine Aggregate Extraction on Adjacent Sabellaria spinulosa aggregations and Other Benthic Fauna. 
			 MEPF 08/P40 Dredging Impacts Verified in Relation to Scientific Evidence(DIVERSE). 
			 MEPF 08/P64 Developing new ground truthing techniques for seabed mapping. 
			 MEPF 08/P70 The development and application of an instrument array to measure the concentration of silt and sand in the overflow from aggregate dredgers. 
			 MEPF 08/P73 Assessment of the distribution and intensity of fishing activities in the vicinity of aggregate extraction sites. 
			 MEPF 08/P75 Best Practice Workshop and Guidelines on Aggregate Ecological Assessments. 
			 MEPF 08/P76 Measuring the effects of suspended particulate matter and smothering on the behaviour, growth and survival of key species found in areas associated with aggregate dredging. 
			 MEPF REC 08/01 2007 REC Data Projects: Analysis and Interpretation Thames Region. 
			 MEPF REC 08/02 2007 REC Data Projects: Analysis and Interpretation South Coast Region. 
			 MEPF REC 08/03 Humber Regional Environmental Characterisation (REC) Programme. 
			 MEPF REC 08/04 East Coast Regional Environmental Characterisation (REC) Programme. 
			 MEPF 07/S05 Communications and Dissemination Co-ordination of MEPF Activities. 
			 MEPF 08/S04-05 Marine ALSF Science Co-ordination Services. 
			 MEPF 08/S04-07 Marine ALSF GISenhancements II. 
			 MEPF 08/S05 Fisheries Liaison Co-ordination (Onshore and Offshore) Services for the Regional Environmental Characterisation (REC) Surveys to be conducted in the East Coast and Humber regions. 
			 MEPF 08/S07-03 Project Co-ordination of the Marine ALSF Regional Environmental Characterisation Studies. 
		
	
	A further nine projects are in the process of being commissioned from the Fund in 2009-10 and contracts for these projects have yet to be finalised.
	Details of all current and completed projects funded by the Marine Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund are published on the MALSF website at:
	http://www.alsf-mepf.org.uk/projects/current-projects.aspx

Milk: Prices

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate his Department has made of the average  (a) farm gate price,  (b) price given to processors and  (c) supermarket price of a pint of milk in each of the last 12 months.

Jim Fitzpatrick: holding answer 19 October 2009
	The following tables show monthly UK farm gate and retail milk prices. No information is available on prices paid at all other points in the supply chain.
	The farm gate price is calculated from monthly surveys of milk purchasers conducted in England and Wales by DEFRA, in Scotland by RERAD and in Northern Ireland by DARD. The farm gate price is the average price received by producers, net of delivery charges. No deduction has been made for superlevy.
	
		
			  UK farm gate milk price 
			   Units: pence per pint 
			 September 2008 15 
			 October 2008 16 
			 November 2008 15 
			 December 2008 15 
			 January 2009 15 
			 February 2009 14 
			 March 2009 14 
			 April 2009 13 
			 May 2009 12 
			 June 2009 13 
			 July 2009 13 
			 August 2009 13 
			  Source: DEFRA. 
		
	
	The average retail price of milk published by the ONS represents the average across all outlets (including delivered milk) rather than just supermarkets.
	
		
			  UK  average retail price of pasteurised whole milk 
			   Units: pence per pint 
			 September 2008 42 
			 October 2008 45 
			 November 2008 45 
			 December 2008 45 
			 January 2009 45 
			 February 2009 44 
			 March 2009 44 
			 April 2009 44 
			 May 2009 44 
			 June 2009 44 
			 July 2009 44 
			 August 2009 44 
			  Source: ONS.

Social Security Benefits: Disabled

Mark Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what proportion of claimants of  (a) incapacity benefit,  (b) employment and support allowance,  (c) severe disablement allowance and  (d) income support for incapacity undertook permitted work in each of the last 10 years as applicable.

Jonathan R Shaw: holding answer 16 September 2009
	The available information is in the following table.
	
		
			  Incapacity benefit, severe disablement allowance or income support claimants with permitted work 
			  Year ending  February each year   Number  Proportion (percentage) 
			 2003 Incapacity benefit 10,600 0.4 
			  Severe disablement allowance 1,400 0.4 
			  Income support 600  
			 2004 Incapacity benefit 27,600 1.1 
			  Severe disablement allowance 6,700 2.1 
			  Income support 500  
			 2005 Incapacity benefit 31,300 1.3 
			  Severe disablement allowance 7,400 2.4 
			  Income support 600  
			 2006 Incapacity benefit 35,300 1.4 
			  Severe disablement allowance 8,000 2.7 
			  Income support 600  
			 2007 Incapacity benefit 39,100 1.6 
			  Severe disablement allowance 8,300 3.0 
			  Income support 600  
			 2008 Incapacity benefit 40,000 1.7 
			  Severe disablement allowance 8,400 3.1 
			  Income support 800  
			 2009 Incapacity benefit 39,000 1.8 
			  Severe disablement allowance 8,600 3.4 
			  Income support 600  
			  Notes: 1. Figures are produced from 5 per cent. sample data and have been uprated to be in line with the 100 per cent. proportions. 2. Numbers are rounded to the nearest 100. 3. Proportions are rounded to the nearest 1 decimal place. 4.  denotes nil or negligible. 5. Data not available in respect of employment and support allowance. 6. Income support permitted work cases are those where the claimant is disabled and earning less than 20 per week. 7. Those claimants with incapacity benefit who are also receiving income support are included in the incapacity benefit figures to avoid double counting. 8. Information on permitted work has only been available since the November 2002 quarter. 9. Permitted work categories (current rates): a. Permitted Work Lower Level (up to 20 per week for unlimited period). b. Supported Permitted Work (up to 93 per week for unlimited period (*supported)). c. Permitted Work Higher Limit (up to 93 per week and  16 hours for up to 26 weeks). d. Permitted Work Higher Limit Subsequent (PWHL after 52 week gap (*supported)). e. * The support must be given by a person employed by a public or local authority or voluntary organisation.  Source:  DWP Information Directorate 5 per cent. sample.

Defence Equipment

Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent steps he has taken to ensure that all troops are properly equipped for each of their duties.

Bob Ainsworth: The Ministry of Defence is focused on ensuring our armed forces continue to be provided with the equipment they need for the conduct of operations in Afghanistan, our main effort. So far this financial year we have approved 410 million on Urgent Operational Requirements, a large proportion of which has been for Force Protection and to counter the threat from Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). New equipments, including vehicles, continue to be delivered as quickly as possible.

Drugs: Crime

Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice 
	(1)  how many people were  (a) prosecuted,  (b) convicted and  (c) imprisoned for dealing (i) cannabis and (ii) ecstasy in each year since 1997;
	(2)  how many people were  (a) found guilty and  (b) sentenced to immediate custody for the unlawful importation of a controlled drug in each year since 1997;
	(3)  how many and what percentage of  (a) male and  (b) female prisoners were serving sentences for drug-related offences in each year since 1997.

Claire Ward: The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts, found guilty at all courts and sentenced to immediate custody for 'possession with intent to supply' and 'supplying or offering to supply' cannabis and ecstasy in England and Wales, from 1997 to 2007 (latest available) is shown in table 1.
	The number of defendants found guilty at all courts and sentenced to immediate custody for unlawful importation of a controlled drug in England and Wales, from 1997 to 2007, is shown in table 2.
	The statistics given in tables 1 and 2 relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.
	Court proceedings data for 2008 are planned for publication at the end of January 2010.
	The number of males and females serving sentences in prison establishments in England and Wales for drug offences from 1997 to 2009 (as at 30 June each year) is shown in table 3.
	
		
			  Table 1: The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts, found guilty at all courts and sentenced to immediate custody for 'possession with intent to supply' and 'supplying or offering to supply' cannabis and ecstasy (methylenedioxymethamphetamineMDMA) in England and Wales, 1997 to 2007 
			   1997  1998  1999 
			   Proceeded against  Found guilty  Immediate custody  Proceeded against  Found guilty  Immediate custody  Proceeded against  Found guilty  Immediate custody 
			 Having possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply: Cannabis and cannabis resin. 3,275 2,499 1,129 3,223 2,648 1,284 2,917 2,246 1,112 
			 Supplying or offering to supply a controlled drug, (or being concerned in): Cannabis and cannabis resin. 1,788 1,414 650 1,830 1,442 656 1,580 1,168 573 
			 Having possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply: MDMA. 787 544 410 410 304 217 693 451 338 
			 Supplying or offering to supply a controlled drug, (or being concerned in): MDMA. 442 310 228 308 246 179 408 231 173 
		
	
	
		
			   2000  2001  2002 
			   Proceeded against  Found guilty  Immediate custody  Proceeded against  Found guilty  Immediate custody  Proceeded against  Found guilty  Immediate custody 
			 Having possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply: Cannabis and cannabis resin. 2,169 1,802 808 1,799 1,358 618 1,787 1,388 547 
			 Supplying or offering to supply a controlled drug, (or being concerned in): Cannabis and cannabis resin. 1,001 842 405 794 613 265 758 592 258 
			 Having possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply: MDMA. 1,081 736 520 1,352 960 690 1,064 830 578 
			 Supplying or offering to supply a controlled drug, (or being concerned in): MDMA. 545 327 234 528 376 252 399 365 216 
		
	
	
		
			   2003  2004  2005 
			   Proceeded against  Found guilty  Immediate custody  Proceeded against  Found guilty  Immediate custody  Proceeded against  Found guilty  Immediate custody 
			 Having possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply: Cannabis and cannabis resin. 2,050 1,470 475 1,525 1,247 420 1,588 993 272 
			 Supplying or offering to supply a controlled drug, (or being concerned in): Cannabis and cannabis resin. 740 522 222 617 456 156 588 393 135 
			 Having possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply: MDMA. 947 746 461 726 603 394 649 557 342 
			 Supplying or offering to supply a controlled drug, (or being concerned in): MDMA. 306 219 127 261 172 100 245 187 91 
		
	
	
		
			   2006  200 7 
			   Proceeded against  Found guilty  Immediate custody  Proceeded against  Found guilty  Immediate custody 
			 Having possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply: Cannabis and cannabis resin. 1,594 957 240 1,614 958 232 
			 Supplying or offering to supply a controlled drug, (or being concerned in): Cannabis and cannabis resin. 622 385 101 554 367 101 
			 Having possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply: MDMA. 582 434 256 592 513 276 
			 Supplying or offering to supply a controlled drug, (or being concerned in): MDMA. 207 169 81 217 169 73 
			 (1) These data are on the principal offence basis. (2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. (3) Staffordshire police force were only able to submit sample data for persons proceeded against and convicted in the magistrates courts for the year 2000. Although sufficient to estimate higher orders of data, these data are not robust enough at a detailed level and have been excluded from the table. (4) Following reclassification in January 2004 to a class C drug, statutory maximum penalty for possession of cannabis was downgraded from five to two years.  Source: Office for Criminal Justice ReformEvidence and Analysis unit 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 2: The number of defendants found guilty at ail courts and sentenced to immediate custody for unlawful importation of a controlled drug in England and Wales, 1997 to 2007( 1,2,3) 
			  Number of defendants 
			   1997  1998  1999  2000 
			   Found guilty  Immediate custody  Found guilty  Immediate custody  Found guilty  Immediate custody  Found guilty  Immediate custody 
			 Unlawful importation of a drug controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 1,239 974 1,190 1,032 1,171 1,072 1,165 1,115 
		
	
	
		
			  Number of defendants 
			   200 1  2002  2003  2004 
			   Found guilty  Immediate custody  Found guilty  Immediate custody  Found guilty  Immediate custody( 4)  Found guilty  Immediate custody( 4) 
			 Unlawful importation of a drug controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 1,648 1,511 1,599 1,588 1,063 1,075 975 977 
		
	
	
		
			  Number of defendants 
			   2005  2006  2007 
			   Found guilty  Immediate custody  Found guilty  Immediate custody  Found guilty  Immediate custody 
			 Unlawful importation of a drug controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 1,026 979 835 787 783 762 
			 (1) These data are on the principal offence basis. (2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. (3) Staffordshire police force were only able to submit sample data for persons proceeded against and convicted in the magistrates' courts for the year 2000. Although sufficient to estimate higher orders of data, these data are not robust enough at a detailed level and have been excluded from the table. (4) The immediate custody column exceeds those found guilty, as it may be the case that a defendant was found guilty in one year and sentenced in the following year.  Source: Office for Criminal Justice ReformEvidence and Analysis unit 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 3: The number of males and females serving sentences in all prison establishments in England and Wales for drug offences (as at 30 June each year), from 1997 to 2009 
			   1997  1998  1999  2000  2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007  2008  2009 
			  Males  
			 Immediate custodial sentence 46,611 49,793 48,862 50,434 51,272 53,936 55,919 57,475 58,703 59,898 62,188 64,600 64,993 
			 Drug offences 6,483 7,099 7,294 7,526 8,010 8,749 8,988 9,252 9,427 9,484 9,569 9,992 9,803 
			 Drug offences as percentage of all 14 14 15 15 16 16 16 16 16 16 15 15 15 
			   
			  Females  
			 Immediate custodial sentence 2,063 2,366 2,431 2,659 2,897 3,336 3,474 3,449 3,476 3,506 3,345 3,524 3,382 
			 Drug offences 691 794 875 947 1,137 1,317 1,342 1,235 1,234 1,163 1,044 990 893 
			 Drug offences as percentage of all 33 34 36 36 39 39 39 36 36 33 31 28 26 
			  Source: Figures taken from Offender Management Caseload Statistics, table 7.2 for 2007 and 2008 up to the year 2008 and from monthly Ministry of Justice Bulletin for June 2009

Jury Service

Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice 
	(1)  how many people were summoned for jury service in each year since 1997; and how many and what proportion were disqualified, broken down by reason for disqualification;
	(2)  what proportion of those summoned for jury service were disqualified on each ground for disqualification in each year since 1997.

Bridget Prentice: The following table provides information from the Jury Central Summoning Board on the number of people summoned for jury service in the Crown court from 2001 to 2008. The table also provides information on the number of people who did not qualify for jury service.
	As the number of disqualifications reported for a given year may include disqualifications for summons that were issued in previous years, a direct proportion of the total summons issued cannot be calculated. Information prior to 2001 is not available.
	Numbers on disqualifications are classified into the three different groups. A more detailed breakdown is not available.
	Annual statistics on jury summons are published by the Ministry of Justice in the annual command paper Judicial and Court Statistics. The most recent edition, presenting statistics for 2008, was published in September 2009. Copies are available in the Library of the House and from the Ministry of Justice website at:
	http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/judicialandcourtstatistics.htm
	
		
			  Number of people summoned for jury service in the Crown  c ourt, 2001 - 08( 1) 
			   2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007  2008 
			 Total number of summons issued 579,473 492,561 461,980 431,432 388,154 390,671 412,666 416,689 
			 Disqualifiedresidency, mental disorders, criminality 118,339 105,314 98,045 89,112 77,364 85,061 94,171 96,325 
			 Disqualifiedon selection 48,271 59,892 58,830 55,410 49,765 53,031 58,900 72,854 
			 Disqualifiedfailed Police National Computer check 69 160 139 148 193 185 207 103 
			 (1) The number of disqualifications reported for a given year may include disqualifications for summons that were issued in previous years. Therefore, disqualifications as a percentage of the total number of summons issued within a year cannot be calculated.  Source: Jury Central Summoning Board

Prison Sentences

Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice 
	(1)  what the imprisonment rate was per 100,000 population in England and Wales in each year since 2001;
	(2)  what information his Department holds on the imprisonment rate per 100,000 population in  (a) Scotland,  (b) Northern Ireland and  (c) the European Union area.

Maria Eagle: The following table gives information on the numbers of prisoners in all prison establishments with prison population ratios in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland 2001-08, and the average prison population ratio per 100,000 for the European Union where this published information is held within the Ministry of Justice.
	The figures are derived from the tables provided in the annual publications Prison Statistics in England and Wales 2001-02, and Offender Management Caseload Statistics, 2003-08. These publications can be found at the following website, and copies are held within the House of Commons Library:
	http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/prisonandprobation.htm
	
		
			  Rate of prison population per 100,000 of general population 2001-08, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland 
			England and Wales  Northern Ireland  Scotland  Average EU 
			 2001 Prison population 67,056 910 6,137  
			  Rate per 100,000 population 127 51 115  
			 2002 Prison population 71,324 1,026 6,404  
			  Rate per 100,000 population 137 61 126 92 
			 2003 Prison population 72,992 1,160 6,524  
			  Rate per 100,000 population 138 70 131  
			 2004 Prison population 75,057 1,274 6,805  
			 2005 Rate per 100,000 population 142 72 133 130 
			 2006 Prison population 76,896 1,301 6,792  
			  Rate per 100,000 population 144 76 133  
			 2006 Prison population 79,085 1,433 7,111  
			  Rate per 100,000 population 147 82 139  
			 2007 Prison population 80,692 1,468 7,291  
			  Rate per 100,000 population 149 83 142 123 
			 2008 Prison population 83,406 1,507 7,741  
			  Rate per 100,000 population 153 85 150 124 
		
	
	The averages for the European Union are not strictly comparable due to the 2004 and 2007 enlargements.

Prisoners Release

James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many applications for release from custody relating to people who pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility were approved by mental health tribunals in each of the last five years; and what the average time taken between their conviction and release of such people was in each such year.

Bridget Prentice: Neither the First tier TribunalMental Health nor the Ministry of Justice Mental Health Unit collects the information requested in this format. The First-tier TribunalMental Health hears applications and references for people detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended by the Mental Health Act 2007). It does not record in its database the information requested. This information could be provided only at disproportionate cost by searching through all files to obtain these details. In any event, these files will only cover the last six months; anything beyond this date will have been destroyed in accordance with the Tribunals' record retention and disposal schedule.

Prisoners: Death

Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people died in prison of drug-related causes in each year since 1997.

Maria Eagle: The prison system for classifying deaths does not include a specific category for drug related deaths, which is a drug related death where the underlying cause is poisoning, drug abuse or dependence and any of the substances controlled under the Misuse of Drug Act (1971) are involved.
	However, information is recorded on deaths where an overdose of any drug played a part. The table shows the numbers of non-natural deaths associated with a drugs overdose.
	
		
			  Non-natural drug related deaths in prison custody 
			   Other non-natural  Self-inflicted  Total 
			 1997   0 
			 1998   0 
			 1999  2 2 
			 2000  4 4 
			 2001  2 2 
			 2002 1 3 4 
			 2003  3 3 
			 2004  3 3 
			 2005 1 5 6 
			 2006 2 1 3 
			 2007  3 3 
			 2008  3 3 
			  Note: The deaths reported in this table have been extracted, from the total deaths in prison in the period in question. While every effort is made to maintain a high level of accuracy, these figures may change as subsequent information arises, such as verdicts. They should not be read or taken as absolute figures. 
		
	
	The drug related self-inflicted deaths refer to cases where an overdose of any drug resulted in death. Three of the four other non-natural deaths refer to situations where any drug may have contributed to the death but not in fatal amounts. The other case relates to a fatal attempt to smuggle drugs into prison.

Prisoners: Pay

Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what expenditure was incurred on unemployment pay for prisoners in 2008-09.

Maria Eagle: I regret that the information requested is not held centrally and could be obtained only by approaching 135 prisons separately which would be at disproportionate cost. Prison Service Order (PSO) 4460 (Prisoners' Pay) sets out a minimum unemployed rate of 2.50 a week. The PSO has been placed in the House Library and can also be viewed at the following web address:
	http://www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/resourcecentre/psispsos/listpsos/index.asp?startrow=51
	Prisoners' pay policy is set out in PSO 4460. Prisoners are eligible for unemployment pay if they are willing to work but the establishment cannot find suitable employment or the prisoner is unable to work. Those who refuse to work must not receive any pay.

Child Tax Credit: Overseas Residence

Jim Cousins: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer 
	(1)  in respect of how many children ordinarily resident outside the UK payments of child tax credit are being made; and what checks on the residence of children are made before payment of such tax credits;
	(2)  what his policy is on obtaining evidence of a child's country of residence in relation to payment of child benefit; and what information he has on the number of children receiving child benefit who are not ordinarily resident in the UK.

Stephen Timms: holding answer 15 October 2009
	Information about the payment of child tax credit to families with children resident outside the UK is only available at disproportionate cost. Data is available on child benefit awards to EEA nationals in respect of children resident in another member state and I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for Bassetlaw (John Mann) on 13 October 2009,  Official Report, column 787W.
	Child benefit and child tax credit is intended to help families in the UK. Generally, therefore, it is not payable in respect of children resident outside the UK. However, under EC coordinating regulations on social security for migrant workers and their families, which the UK has administered since it joined the European Economic Community in 1973, a European Economic Area (EEA) national working in one member state can claim family benefits (child tax credit together with child benefit) in that member state in respect of members of their family resident in other member states.
	All claims for family benefits are subject to a wide range of checks throughout the life of each claim. Where claims for family benefits are made under the EC Regulations on behalf of children living in another member state, HMRC carry out further checks to verify the information provided by the customer to prevent erroneous or fraudulent claims. These checks include requiring the relevant authorities in the member state where the worker's family resides to confirm the composition of the family and to find out whether there are any family benefits in payment in that other member state.

Departmental Visits Abroad

David Simpson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much his Department spent on overnight accommodation for  (a) Ministers and  (b) officials while overseas in each of the last three years.

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The requested information is not available, as the Treasury's accounting system does not record accommodation costs separately from subsistence spending.
	Since 1999, the Government have published on an annual basis a list of all overseas visits by Cabinet Ministers costing in excess of 500, as well as the total cost of all ministerial travel overseas. Copies of the lists are available in the Libraries of the House. All travel is undertaken in accordance with the Civil Service Management Code and the Ministerial Code.

Taxation: Property

Desmond Swayne: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many penalties have been imposed by HM Revenue and Customs on estates as a consequence of a difference between the official valuation of a property and the final sale price in the last 12 months; how many such penalties have been challenged; how many such challenges have been upheld; and how much revenue accrued to the Exchequer from the imposition of such penalties.

Stephen Timms: The precise information requested is available only at disproportionate cost as HM Revenue and Customs' systems do not allow for identification of penalties imposed specifically due to a difference in the initial valuation of a property and the final sale of price of that property
	Inheritance tax (IHT) rules require all assetsincluding propertyin an estate to be valued for IHT purposes at the point immediately before the deceased's death. Where a property is subsequently sold within four years of this for less than the value on which IHT was paid 'loss on sale' relief may be claimed.
	In the last 12 months penalties have been charged in 17 cases as a result of undervaluation of some part of the estate, resulting in approximately 120,000 of additional revenue accruing to the Exchequer
	The numbers of penalties challenged and those subsequently upheld are not available.

Valuation Office: Rightmove

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Ludlow of 14 September 2009,  Official Report, column 2134W, on the Valuation Office: data protection, whether the Information Commissioner's Personal Data Flowchart guidance on domestic property data was taken into account when the Valuation Office Agency signed its contract with Rightmove.co.uk to obtain property data.

Ian Pearson: The contract is between HMRC and Rightmove.co.uk and predates the Personal Data Flowchart Guidance.

Dental Services

Anne McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of tooth  (a) extractions and  (b) fillings carried out under the NHS in each year since 1997.

Ann Keen: Information is not available in the format requested.
	The estimated full year number of clinical dental items delivered, by patient type during 2003-04 and 2008-09, is available in Tables 1 and 2 for England and Tables 7 and 8 for Wales in the Provisional Clinical Dental Report, England and Wales: Quarter 3, 31 December 2008Experimental Statistics report.
	This publication carries the label Experimental statistics. Experimental statistics are new official statistics undergoing evaluation. They are published in order to involve users and stakeholders in their development and as a means to build in quality at an early stage.
	Note that as the nature of the dental contract was different in 2003-04 to 2008-09, covering a differing range of services, with different data collection practices and funding regimes in place, there are a number of reasons why figures are not fully comparable across the two years. The figures published should be treated with the caution appropriate to all experimental data.
	This report, published on 19 August 2009, has been placed in the Library and is also available on the NHS Information Centre website at:
	www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/clinicaldental0809q3

Dental Services

Anne McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the budget for NHS dental services has been in  (a) Vale of York constituency,  (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and  (c) England in each year since 1997.

Ann Keen: Prior to April 2006, most primary dental services were provided under former General Dental Service (GDS) arrangements. These were demand led services where the pattern of dental expenditure was largely determined by where dentists chose to practice, and how much national health service work they chose to undertake.
	The NHS Information Centre for health and social care published the following report on 26 March 2008: NHS Expenditure for General Dental Services and Personal Dental Services: England 1997-982005-06. This report has already been placed in the Library and is also available on the NHS Information Centre website at:
	www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/dentalexpendl997to2006
	The report includes information on primary dental care expenditure by parliamentary constituency, primary care trust (PCT) and strategic health authority (SHA) area for 1997-98 to 2005-06 in Tables A3 and B3 of Annex 3. Table A3 relates to 'gross' expenditure and table B3 relates to 'net' expenditure. 'Gross' expenditure refers to the full cost of the payments recorded; 'net' expenditure reflects the cost of these payments to the NHS after the deduction of income from NHS dental charges paid by patients.
	This information is based on the old contractual arrangements which were in place up to and including 31 March 2006. Further notes to aid interpretation of the information are shown in the 'Contents and Notes' page of Annex 3. The data will not be directly comparable with data based on the new dental service framework introduced from 1 April 2006.
	The former GDS arrangements were replaced with effect from 1 April 2006, when PCTs were given responsibility for planning and commissioning primary dental services and provided with local, devolved, dental budgets. The primary dental service funding allocations made to the North Yorkshire and York PCT, the aggregate allocations to all PCTs within the Yorkshire and the Humber SHA, and the aggregate allocations to the NHS in England, for each of the four years since PCTs assumed full responsibility for primary dental care services, are in the following table. These are net of income from dental charges paid by patients, which are retained locally by PCTs to supplement the resources available for dentistry. PCTs may also dedicate some of their other NHS resources to dentistry if they consider this an appropriate local priority. Allocations are not apportioned by individual constituencies or towns; PCTs determine the distribution of resources within their area on the basis of local needs and priorities. Actual expenditure levels are determined by the pattern and type of services commissioned by each PCT and are recorded in the notes to PCT accounts.
	
		
			  Primary dental service net funding allocations 
			  000 
			   2006-07  2007-08  2008-09  2009-10 
			 North Yorkshire and York PCT 25,195 26,894 30,088 31,392 
			 Yorkshire and the Humber SHA 186,918 198,973 222,180 237,653 
			 England 1,764,700 1,872,442 2,081,000 2,257,000 
			 Notes: 1. The PCT allocation figure for 2006-07 is the aggregate of the allocations made initially to the Craven, Harrogate and Rural District, Hambleton and Richmondshire, Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale, and Selby and York PCTs before they merged to form the North Yorkshire and York PCT with effect from 1 October 2006. 2. PCTs are awarded separate funding allocations to meet the cost of any dental vocational trainees who may be placed with dental practices in their area. The funding totals for the Yorkshire and Humber SHA, and England, include funding for vocational trainees.

Mental Health Services: Leeds

Greg Mulholland: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to improve standards of mental health care in Leeds.

Phil Hope: The responsibility for providing healthcare, including specialist mental health care services, rests with primary care trusts (PCTs). The Department provides funding for PCTs to commission, or provide healthcare for their local populations from national health service or independent sector providers. We are not prescriptive about how individual PCTs spend their budgets and each PCT decides its own spending levels for specific healthcare treatments and services.
	Since 2001-02, total planned investment in adult mental health services has increased by 50 per cent. (2.0 billion), putting in place the extra services and staff needed to transform mental health services. Nine consecutive years of increased spending by the NHS on mental health services has provided more staff, and increasing numbers of people with a severe mental illness are receiving treatment from community teams outside of hospital settings.
	Our significant investment in the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme (IAPT), will see annual funding rising to 173 million, 3,600 extra therapists trained and 900,000 more people treated by 2011. This investment in IAPT will help to add to the existing provision of psychological therapies, increase capacity, reduce waiting times and drive up quality standards.

Maternal and Child Mortality

Mohammad Sarwar: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assistance his Department gives in  (a) drafting and  (b) implementing national plans for the reduction of maternal, newborn and child mortality in countries in receipt of aid from his Department.

Michael Foster: Maternal and child health is a priority for the Department for International Development (DFID). In Africa and Asia we work closely with partner governments in developing national health plans to tackle maternal and child health and deliver better services for the poorest.
	At the UN General Assembly, we pledged 100 million to assist Nepal, Malawi, Ghana, Liberia, Burundi and Sierra Leone to expand access to free health care. This will save millions of women and children's lives.

Food Security: Africa

Sally Keeble: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps his Department is taking to ensure security in the supply of food for people in developing countries in Africa.

Gareth Thomas: The UK supports agriculture, rural development and food security programmes in 18 countries across Africa, contributing 73 million last year including 20 million on food security in Ethiopia. We are providing additional assistance this year for the Horn of Africa. We provide support through multilateral institutions. We support Africa's vision for a doubling of agricultural production over the next 20 years to secure food supplies over the longer term.

Afghanistan: Infant Mortality

Mohammad Sarwar: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assistance his Department has given to the Government of Afghanistan to help in reducing levels of infant mortality.

Douglas Alexander: The Department for International Development (DFID) supports the Afghan Government in reducing levels of infant mortality through the Afghanistan Reconstruction Fund (ARTF). DFID has provided 360 million to the ARTF since 2002, and is planning a further 165 million to 2013. This will cover around 14 per cent. of the total operating costs of the Afghan health sector.
	In Helmand, the UK is supporting the Afghan Government's efforts to improve health care through the cross-departmental conflict fund and the provincial reconstruction team.
	Government of Afghanistan programmes in the health sector have achieved the following results:
	Full immunisation of children has risen from 15 per cent. in 2003 to 27 per cent. in 2006
	The number of Afghan midwives has increased from 467 in 2002 to 2,167 in 2008;
	82 per cent. of the population now live in a district with access to basic healthcare across the country, compared with 9 per cent. in 2003. As a result, an estimated 40,000 more Afghan children will see their fifth birthdays this year compared to 2002.

Eritrea

Michael Moore: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the Government's policy is on the provisions of the development agreement reached between the European Commission and Eritrea in September 2009; and if he will make a statement.

Gareth Thomas: The UK Government welcome the new European Commission Country Strategy for Eritrea that it signed with the Government of Eritrea in September 2009. This will provide 122 million between 2009 and 2013 to help the Eritrean people improve governance and reduce poverty and food insecurity. Over half of the population live below the national poverty line.
	The development co-operation is part of the broader partnership between the European Union and Eritrea based on the Cotonou Agreement of June 2000. As part of Article 8 of this agreement, there will be political dialogue between the parties on political and human rights issues.

Georgia: Armed Conflict

Adrian Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps his Department has taken to assist those displaced as a result of the conflict in Georgia in August 2008.

Michael Foster: In response to the conflict in August 2008 the Department for International Development (DFID) initially committed 2 million to humanitarian agencies providing assistance to affected civilians in Georgia and the Russian Federation (RF). Of this 1 million was allocated to the International Committee of the Red Cross for their operations in Georgia and North Ossetia in the RF. 550,000 was allocated to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 250,000 was given to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and 200,000 to the Hazardous Areas Life-Support Organisation (HALO).
	In December 2008, DFID provided a further 2 million humanitarian aid to be channelled through UNHCR. This provided Internally Displaced People (both pre and post 2008 conflict) with winterised shelter and continued access to basic provisions.

Literacy: Developing Countries

Greg Mulholland: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent steps he has taken to improve levels of literacy in the world's 10 poorest countries.

Michael Foster: The Department for International Development (DFID) is committed in partnership with other donors, to the realisation of all six goals of the Education for All (EFA) agenda.
	Through our long-term commitment to provide 8.5 billion in support of education overseas to 2015, we are supporting poor countries to invest in quality basic education, including lower secondary, to ensure that children attain the fundamental skills they need to participate in social and economic life.
	DFID has recently directly supported adult literacy programmes in Uganda, Kenya, India and Yemen, as well as through humanitarian aid programmes. In India, DFID supports the accelerated Tara Akshar Reading programme, a fast track programme aiming to teach people to read in 50-hours over a period of 30-days. In Yemen, DFID and participating donors are financing a substantial basic education programme which includes support to both primary and adult basic education.

English Partnerships: Redundancy Pay

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 
	(1)  how much English Partnerships spent on redundancy payments when it was dissolved; and how many people received such payments;
	(2)  how many people made redundant by English Partnerships have subsequently been hired as employees, contractors or consultants by the Homes and Communities Agency.

Ian Austin: When English Partnerships dissolved it spent 368,000 on redundancy payments in relation to five staff. Information on redundancy payments on the three most senior members of staff, including its Chief Executive, was reported on in its final set of accounts, for 2008-09, which was published on its website at:
	http://www.englishpartnerships.co.uk/corporateinformation.htm
	Copies were also lodged in the Vote Office.
	The Homes and Communities Agency has no record centrally that any of these former staff have subsequently been hired by the Homes and Communities Agency as employees, contractors or consultants.

Fire Services

Bob Neill: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough of 10 March 2009,  Official Report, column 315W, on the New Dimension Programme, if he will place in the Library a copy of the report by NERA UK Ltd on the New Dimension Programme.

Shahid Malik: The report will be placed in the Library of the House shortly.

Fire Services: Standards

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what recent guidance his Department has given to fire and rescue authorities on their Service Improvement Plans.

Shahid Malik: Fire and Rescue Authorities produce Service Improvement Plans as part of the Integrated Risk Management Planning process.
	FRAs are required by the Fire and Rescue Service National Framework to have in place and maintain an Integrated Risk Management Plan (IRMP) which reflects local need and sets out plans to tackle effectively both existing and potential risks to communities. The IRMP enables the authority to tailor cover for fire and other incidents to local circumstancesevaluating where risk is greatest and allocating resource accordingly.
	A range of guidance on the drawing up of IRMPs has been issued to FRAs and is available on the Communities and Local Government website.

Housing: Regeneration

Jim Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much has been spent on each Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder; what the total expenditure has been; how many properties have been demolished in each; and how many new  (a) affordable and  (b) market price properties have been built in each.

Ian Austin: Total allocations from 2002-03 to 2009-10 for the nine original HMR pathfinders are given in the table:
	
		
			  HMR pathfinder  2002-03 to 2009-10 ( million)( 1) 
			 Birmingham Sandwell 139 
			 East Lancashire 270 
			 Hull and East Riding 113 
			 Manchester Salford 322 
			 Merseyside 295 
			 Newcastle Gateshead 200 
			 North Staffordshire 178 
			 Oldham Rochdale 184 
			 South Yorkshire 245 
			 (1) Includes preparation and early actions. 
		
	
	From 2006-07, approximately 75 million has also been allocated to the three areas of wider lower demand; Tees Valley, West Yorkshire and West Cumbria making a total of more than 2 billion allocated to the HMR programme since 2002-03.
	Total new build, refurbishment and demolition figures for HMR pathfinder areas, from the beginning of the programme to March 2009, are given in the table. Data differentiating affordable and private new build housing are not held in a readily available format and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
	
		
			  HMR pathfinder  New build( 1)  Refurbishments( 1)  Demolitions( 1) 
			 Birmingham Sandwell 224 8,700 1,300 
			 East Lancashire 16 4,300 2,000 
			 Hull and East Riding 167 400 600 
			 Manchester Salford 935 12,300 2,800 
			 Merseyside 1,059 9,900 1,600 
			 Newcastle Gateshead 274 5,100 2,400 
			 North Staffordshire 198 6,200 1,400 
			 Oldham Rochdale 323 3,200 800 
			 South Yorkshire 538 9,000 3,100 
			 (1) HMR funded: as set out in the funding agreements between HMR pathfinders and CLG/HCA.

Legal Opinion

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough of 11 March 2009,  Official Report, columns 488-9W, on legal opinion, what the nature of the legal opinion and the associated issue of law was that was obtained in relation to the  (a) FiReControl Project,  (b) Firelink Project,  (c) Gypsy and Traveller Sites Grant Project and  (d) Home Information Pack Register Project.

Barbara Follett: Legal advice was provided on a regular and ongoing basis. The majority will be protected by Legal Professional Privilege or commercial confidentiality or both. Providing detailed information about advice obtained would be at disproportionate cost.

Non-Domestic Rates: Valuation

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many and what proportion of hereditaments in London are  (a) above and  (b) below the 50,000 rateable value threshold according to (i) the 2005 Rating List and (ii) the latest modelling for the 2010 Rating List.

Barbara Follett: The HMRC figures published for the 2005 Ratings List at April 1 2009 show a total of 280,000 hereditaments in London. Of these, 240,000 hereditaments (86 per cent. of all London hereditaments) were equal to or were below the 50,000 threshold, while 40,000 hereditaments were above that threshold (14 per cent. of all London hereditaments).
	The draft 2010 Ratings List has a total of 280,000 hereditaments in London. Of these 230,000 hereditaments (82 per cent.) of all London hereditaments) were equal to or below the 50,000 threshold and 50,000 hereditaments were above that threshold (18 per cent. of all London hereditaments). The dataset used is consistent with the consultation document titled: The transitional arrangements for the non-domestic rating revaluation 2010 in England, published on 8 July 2009.
	http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/localgovernment/nndrrevaluation2010
	Please note all figures have been rounded to the nearest 1,000.

Parking: Fees and Charges

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what information his Department holds on the revenue raised by local authorities from parking  (a) fines and  (b) charges in the latest year for which figures are available.

Barbara Follett: The latest outturn information for England on the revenue raised by local authorities from on-street parking was as follows:
	Penalty charge notice income: 333.5 million;
	Other sales, fees and charges: 324.5 million.
	These were published in Annex A5 of the 'Local Authority Revenue Expenditure and Financing England 2007-08 Final Outturn' on the Communities and Local Government website at:
	http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/corporate/statistics/revenue200708finaloutturn

Parking: Supermarkets

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 
	(1)  what recent representations his Department has received on the merits of levying charges to park at supermarkets;
	(2)  what representations his Department has received on supermarket parking charges to be issued by local authorities under the Sustainable Communities Act 2007.

Barbara Follett: The Department has not received any representations on supermarket parking charges to be issued by local authorities under the Sustainable Communities Act 2007 ('the Act'). In line with the Act, the Secretary of State is co-operating with the Local Government Association in its capacity as the selector as it considers proposals submitted under the Act and draws up a short-list for the Secretary of State to consider.
	The Local Government Association is considering proposals submitted under the Act and has received two proposals on supermarket parking charges;
	Exeter city councilin summary the proposal is for Government to give Exeter city council the power to retain revenue from locally imposed non-domestic rates on store car parking spaces, with the power for the Council to allow discounts to stores that source at least 30 per cent. of goods from within 30 miles of Exeter (and which are not first transported to a distribution centre more than 30 miles away).
	Lewes district councilin summary the proposal is for the Secretary of State to take power, or to give local authorities the power, to levy non domestic rates on all store car parking spaces with a power for the council to allow discounts (perhaps up to 100 per cent.) if the supermarket or other store, sources a stated percentage of goods for sale locally.

Social Rented Housing

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what steps his Department plans to take in response to the report by Professor John Hills' on social housing and social mobility.

Ian Austin: John Hills' report has made a significant contribution to the debate about the role of social housing. This Government have taken decisive action to address the challenges raised in John's report and the challenges raised by the current economic climate. We have committed to investing 7.5 billion over two years to deliver up to 112,000 affordable homes and around 15,000 private homes, including 340 million to support local authorities in delivering new council housing. I am also introducing a range of major reforms to the social and private rented sector. This includes the consultations I have recently published on a devolved system of responsibility and funding for council housing, a major review of the private rented sector and changes to social housing allocations to give people confidence that councils allocate housing in their area fairly, and the initiative I have launched to clamp-down on fraud in the social sector. In addition, I will be setting out further details of the Government's plans to support housing recovery and ensure people have access to decent homes later this year.

Town and Country Planning Association: Finance

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to page 21 of his Department's Resource Accounts for 2008-09, HC 449, how much his Department has budgeted for payment to the Town and Country Planning Association in 2009-10 for work on eco-towns.

John Healey: We are currently agreeing an eco-towns work plan with the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) as we move into the implementation stage of the Eco-towns programme, following publication of Planning Policy Statement: eco-towns. As part of this the TCPA will complete the series of best practice worksheets to support those taking forward eco-towns, and we have allocated 22,000 in 2009-10 for this work.

Warm Front Scheme

Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what steps his Department is taking to reduce the additional amount householders in receipt of a grant from the Warm Front Scheme pay.

David Kidney: holding answer 20 October 2009
	On 23 April we announced our intention to increase Warm Front grant levels from 2,700 to 3,500 (or from 4,000 to 6,000 where oil or a low carbon technology is recommended).
	The number of households that are now asked to make a contribution to the cost of works has reduced from around one in five households, to one in 10.

Warm Front Scheme

Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many households in Coventry have received Warm Front Scheme grants to date; and what the average additional amount paid by householders was.

David Kidney: holding answer 20 October 2009
	The following table shows the number of households in Coventry that have received assistance from the Warm Front Scheme, and the average additional amount paid by householders to 30 September 2009.
	
		
			  Households assisted by Warm Front in Coventry from June 2000 to 30 September 2009: 
			   Number/() 
			 Total number of households assisted 14,821 
			 Number of households that paid an additional amount 1,808 
			 Average additional amount paid per household ()(1) 394.41 
			 (1) 394.41 is the average additional amount paid by those 1,808 households that paid a contribution.

Middle East: Peace Negotiations

Michael Moore: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 23 February 2009,  Official Report, column 381, on the Middle East: peace negotiations, how many staff his Department plans to second to support the role of the Quartet Special Envoy in 2010; what the  (a) grades and  (b) salary ranges of such staff will be; and if he will make a statement.

Ivan Lewis: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has currently seconded one higher executive officer equivalent (salary range 23,157 to 33,004) and one senior civil servant (salary range 58,200 to 117,750) to work in the Quartet Representative's office. There are no plans to change this.

Somalia: Piracy

Claire Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assistance the EU has provided to the Kenyan government to improve its naval capacity in relation to the suppression of piracy off the coast of Somalia.

Chris Bryant: The EU and its member states are eager to support capacity building in Kenya, and the Kenyan Government have been engaged in dialogue to ascertain priority needs, including regarding naval capacity. The UK, as chair of Working Group 1 of the international Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS), led a needs assessment mission to the Horn of Africa in September 2009, involving the European Commission as well as other partners. The assessment identified a number of priority Kenyan naval requirements, and these will be discussed shortly among CGPCS partners.
	On wider counter-piracy activity, the European Commission is supporting the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in the implementation of a jointly developed programme for support for the trial and related treatment of piracy suspects in Kenya. The programme budget is 1.75 million. This programme began on 15 May 2009 and will run for 18 months, with other countries also contributing to this project.

Apprentices

Graham Brady: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what his Department's estimates are for the number of apprenticeship places available in each financial year from 2009-10 to 2013-14; and what the target number of apprenticeship places for each of these years was in 2007.

Kevin Brennan: holding answer 16 September 2009
	The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills do not create estimates for the number of apprenticeships places that will be available each year but produce trajectories based on available funding. The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) Grant Letter 2009-10 published in November 2008 set out the planned number of LSC funded apprenticeships starts for academic years 2008/09 and 2009/10 (Table 1.1 as follows).
	
		
			  Table 1.1: Funded apprenticeship starts  (academic years) 
			   Total starts 
			 2008/09 228,000 
			 2009/10 238,000 
			  Note: Agreed funding from the LSC Grant Letter 2009-10 published in November 2008. 
		
	
	In addition to these places, on 7 January 2009 the Prime Minister announced a 140 million package to provide an extra 35,000 Apprenticeship places over the financial year 2009-10.
	Funding has not been agreed for subsequent years and so agreed trajectories for 2010/11 onwards have yet to be constructed but we are aiming to deliver 250,000 starts per year by 2020.

Aspire Fund

Justine Greening: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much funding has been distributed to companies from his Department's Aspire Fund since 19 November 2008; how many companies have received such funding; and how many awards from that fund have been  (a) below 100,000,  (b) between 100,000 and 299,000,  (c) between 300,000 and 499,000,  (d) between 500,000 and 749,000,  (e) between 750,000 and 999,000,  (f) between 1 million and 1.49 million,  (g) between 1.5 million and 2 million and  (h) over 2 million.

Rosie Winterton: On 7 July 2009 a first investment was completed worth 700,000 which included funding of 350,000 from the Aspire Fund. On 11 August 2009, a second offer totalling 1 million and including 400,000 Aspire funding was also completed.
	There are two further deals in legal stages, one of which totals 1.5 million of funding with the Aspire Fund providing 400,000 towards that investment. The second totals 1.3 million of funding with the Aspire Fund providing 350,000 towards investment. These two deals are expected to complete in early September.
	There are seven further potential deals under active consideration looking to raise 4.6 million in total, with the Aspire Fund providing approximately 2.2 million of this.

Business: Government Assistance

Anne McIntosh: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills 
	(1)  how many  (a) start-up and  (b) established businesses in each region had received assistance from each participating bank under the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme on the latest date for which figures are available;
	(2)  when he plans to respond to question 286233, on the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme, tabled on 8 July 2009.

Rosie Winterton: The Enterprise Finance Guarantee was launched on 14 January. The tables provide details of the number and value of loans offered and drawn down by age of business for each region.
	
		
			  Number of loans offered 
			  Region  Not known  0 to  3 months  3 months to 1 year  1 to 2 years  2 to 3 years  3 to 4 years  4 to 5 years  Over 5 years  Total 
			 East Midlands  38 27 19 26 29 11 181 331 
			 East of England 2 76 33 45 37 28 38 287 546 
			 London 2 66 39 35 38 37 35 293 545 
			 North East  24 8 14 19 10 10 80 165 
			 North West 1 78 44 33 37 40 46 208 487 
			 Northern Ireland  5 2 3 4 4 2 24 44 
			 Scotland  69 18 21 17 19 19 150 313 
			 South East 1 74 42 45 36 48 40 390 676 
			 South West 3 55 32 42 42 43 46 274 537 
			 Wales 1 44 10 16 17 12 13 121 234 
			 West Midlands 2 64 25 32 36 27 30 228 444 
			 Yorkshire and the Humber 2 52 26 17 13 19 18 134 281 
			 Total 14 645 306 322 322 316 308 2,370 4,603 
		
	
	
		
			  Value of loans offered 
			   million 
			  Region  Not known  0 to  3 months  3 months to 1 year  1 to 2 years  2 to 3 years  3 to 4 years  4 to 5 years  Over 5 years  Total 
			 East Midlands  2.98 1.79 1.00 2.87 1.47 1.74 24.34 36.18 
			 East of England 0.22 4.64 0.92 2.35 3.32 1.82 3.69 30.21 47.16 
			 London 0.41 5.02 2.80 3.30 2.60 3.36 3.14 39.60 60.22 
			 North East  1.79 0.61 0.72 1.60 0.51 0.59 10.15 15.98 
			 North West 0.25 4.83 3.04 2.05 2.65 4.25 6.16 23.84 47.08 
			 Northern Ireland  0.88 0.14 0.37 1.11 0.10 0.25 5.70 8.55 
			 Scotland  3.48 1.17 1.25 1.58 2.60 2.07 29.02 41.16 
			 South East 0.10 5.81 3.12 3.10 3.75 3.53 3.38 45.09 8.55 
			 South West 0.13 2.77 2.50 2.03 2.25 2.21 3.56 32.61 41.16 
			 Wales 0.03 2.57 0.60 1.35 0.71 0.66 1.12 10.89 67.89 
			 West Midlands 0.24 4.62 1.26 3.01 3.13 1.47 1.81 26.40 48.06 
			 Yorkshire and the Humber 1.17 2.90 2.34 1.18 1.04 1.33 1.82 17.89 29.68 
			 Total 2.55 42.29 20.27 21.73 26.61 23.30 29.33 295.74 461.82 
		
	
	
		
			  Number of loans drawn 
			  Region  Not known  0 to 3 months  3 months to 1 year  1 to 2 years  2 to 3 years  3 to 4 years  4 to 5 years  Over 5 years  Total 
			 East Midlands  29 20 16 20 20 6 137 248 
			 East of England 2 55 28 37 29 20 29 217 417 
			 London 2 50 31 27 24 28 23 211 396 
			 North East  17 5 12 15 6 10 61 126 
			 North West 1 62 38 28 33 35 42 175 414 
			 Northern Ireland  4 2 2 4  1 15 28 
			 Scotland  54 12 17 14 17 17 124 255 
			 South East 1 57 37 37 25 42 28 294 521 
			 South West 2 39 26 31 37 37 37 213 422 
			 Wales 1 29 7 14 15 8 10 86 170 
			 West Midlands 1 49 19 27 30 22 23 170 341 
			 Yorkshire and the Humber 1 44 23 14 12 17 14 95 220 
			 Total 11 489 248 262 258 252 240 1,798 3,558 
		
	
	
		
			  Value of loans drawn 
			   million 
			  Region  Not known  0 to 3 months  3 months to 1 year  1 to 2 years  2 to 3 years  3 to 4 years  4 to 5 years  Over 5 years  Total 
			 East Midlands  2.38 1.51 0.72 2.02 1.02 0.91 17.64 26.22 
			 East of England 0.22 2.71 0.79 2.09 2.91 1.36 3.39 23.13 36.60 
			 London 0.41 3.43 2.01 2.37 1.47 2.37 2.48 26.89 41.43 
			 North East  1.05 0.47 0.65 1.24 0.35 0.59 6.55 10.90 
			 North West 0.25 3.99 2.77 1.89 2.32 3.49 5.54 20.65 40.90 
			 Northern Ireland  0.81 0.14 0.28 1.11  0.02 3.24 5.59 
			 Scotland  3.02 0.83 1.15 0.99 2.46 1.87 22.43 32.75 
			 South East 0.10 3.88 2.83 2.67 2.30 3.13 2.07 32.82 50.81 
			 South West 0.07 2.12 2.10 1.32 1.99 1.95 2.37 22.56 34.48 
			 Wales 0.03 1.71 0.41 0.85 0.60 0.34 0.73 6.85 11.53 
			 West Midlands 0.06 3.37 0.84 2.74 1.88 1.17 1.49 19.26 30.80 
			 Yorkshire and the Humber 0.59 2.38 1.66 1.01 0.92 1.17 1.40 12.63 21.75 
			 Total 1.71 30.83 16.39 17.72 19.75 18.80 22.88 215.64 343.73

Charlie Whelan

Jonathan Djanogly: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the answer of 15 October 2009,  Official Report, column 1047W, on Charlie Whelan, whether the EU Agency Workers Directive was discussed at the meeting between the Secretary of State and Charlie Whelan on 15 January 2009.

Patrick McFadden: The EU agency workers directive was not discussed but rather employment issues in the automotive sector.
	continued

Finance: Environment Protection

Mark Oaten: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much of the 250 million Low Carbon Industrial Strategy Fund has been  (a) allocated and (b) spent to date on each project which has received funding.

Patrick McFadden: The first investments from the 250 million of funding for low carbon economic development in the Strategic Investment Fund were set out in the UK Low Carbon Industrial Strategy on 15 July and further investments have since also been announced. The funding that has been committed, or earmarked for specific projects and investments, includes:
	Up to 120 million to support development of a British based offshore wind industry.
	Up to 30 million to capitalise on Britain's wave and tidal sector strengths
	Up to 10 million for the accelerated deployment of electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
	A 4 million expansion of the Manufacturing Advisory Service.
	45 million to support research and technology into low carbon aeroengine projects.
	2.5 million to a Carbon Trust technology investment joint venture to help UK companies develop new low carbon technologies in China.
	By way of example, specific projects supported include Wave Huba groundbreaking project in the south west of England creating the UK's first offshore facility for the demonstration of wave energy generation devices; and marine energy testing facilities at the New and Renewable Energy Centre (NaREC). Offshore wind investments include funding for new offshore wind manufacturing facilities in the UK and investment in the development of next generation and near-market offshore wind technologies through large scale demonstration.
	The Department has published an update on the entire 750 million Strategic Investment Fund, of which the low carbon SIF is a part, and copies have been placed in the Libraries of the House.

Manufacturing Industries: Government Assistance

Mark Oaten: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what projects have been granted funding under the advanced manufacturing package.

Ian Lucas: The advanced manufacturing package announced on 28 July 2009 provides 151.5 million of support to British manufacturers. Key projects include 45 million funding to Rolls-Royce to support four new advanced manufacturing facilities built in the UK, 45 million to support Rolls-Royce led research and technology critical to the development of low-carbon aircraft engines, 40 million investment in SAMULET research and technology programme, a 12 million expansion of the Printable Electronics Centre in Sedgefield, an additional 5 million investment from the Technology Strategy Board in collaborative RD projects as part of its high value manufacturing competition, and a 0.5 million investment to support the development of a centre of excellence for silicon design in the south west.

Train to Gain: Finance

David Drew: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what plans he has to simplify the operation of Train to Gain; what the annual budget for Train to Gain is; and if he will discuss how to improve its operation with regional development agencies.

Kevin Brennan: The Department has introduced a range of measures to streamline Train to Gain for employers and skills providers and to simplify access. For example, we have brought together the Train to Gain and Business Link brokerage services to make it easier for businesses to identify the learning requirements of their staff, alongside their wider business needs. We are continuing to monitor Train to Gain with the aim of reducing paperwork and easing administrative burdens on providers.
	The budget for 2009-10 is 925 million as set out in the Learning and Skills Council Grant Letter for 2009-10.
	In future Regional Development Agencies will have a stronger role in articulating skills priorities for their regions, which will influence training provision through Train to Gain and other programmes.

Automatic Number Plate Recognition

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 13 July 2009,  Official Report, column 137W, on Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), what data is collected by the National ANPR Data Centre other than that ANPR data which is collected and stored locally.

Alan Johnson: The only data collected by the National ANPR Data Centre (NADC) is that which is collected and stored locally.
	The NADC is currently under development and test. There are 40 police forces now supplying data and all police forces will be doing so by the end of 2009.
	Information specifically relating to 2005 is not held centrally and some information would not be held on either the local or central ANPR systems.

Broadcasting Programmes: Finance

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much funding his Department allocated to support the television production Good 4 the Hood.

Alan Johnson: holding answer 20 October 2009
	The Home Office partnered with the youth targeted channel MTV to develop the Good 4 The Hood campaign, to engage and inspire young people to be part of the solution in overcoming crime in their local area. The Home Office has spent a total of 70,000 on production costs for the Good 4 The Hood campaign. These costs included the production of TV and online adverts, a bespoke website and the four part MTV series.

DNA: Databases

James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of recorded crimes were detected using DNA profiles from the National DNA Database in 2008-09.

Alan Campbell: The number and proportion of recorded crimes detected in which a DNA match was available in 2008-09 is shown in table 1. It is also important to note that the detections are achieved through integrated criminal investigation, not through DNA alone. The source of the figures provided is the Forensic performance data, which is collected from police forces by the Home Office.
	The figures for the number of crimes detected in which a DNA match was available only include crimes detected in which a DNA match was reported by the National DNA Database (NDNAD). They do not include DNA matches which arise through case work in serious crime, which usually involve comparing DNA profiles in a forensic laboratory, or DNA matches arising from one-off speculative searches of the NDNAD. Data on DNA matches from casework and speculative searches is not included in the police Forensic performance data.
	The presentation of crimes detected with DNA as a proportion of total recorded crime undervalues the relative contribution of DNA to the crime detection rate. It should be noted that the majority of recorded crimes do not have a crime scene (for example, minor assault, drugs offences, theft, fraud etc.) and do not have a crime scene examination. In 2008-09, just under 797,000 crimes had a crime scene examination (17 percent of recorded crimes). In those crimes which have a crime scene examination, some do not yield any forensic material (DNA or fingerprints). In 2008-09, potential DNA material was collected at 99,402 crimes; and of these, 39,795 crimes yielded DNA crime scene samples of sufficient quantity and quality for profiling and loading to the NDNAD. Of the 39,795 crimes in which a crime scene sample profile was loaded, a match was generated in 36,727 crimes.
	The proportion of 'crimes detected in which a DNA match was available', of those, 'crimes where potential DNA material was collected' is shown in table 2.
	
		
			  Table 1 
			  2008-09  Number/percentage 
			 Detected crimes in which a DNA match was available ('DNA detections') 17,607 
			 Additional detections arising from the DNA match(1) 14,602 
			 Total detected crimes in which a DNA match was available or played a part 32,209 
			 Total recorded crime 4,708,072 
			 Proportion of 'total crimes detected in which a DNA match was available or played a part' of total recorded crime (percentage) 0.68 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 2 
			  2008-09  Number/percentage 
			 Detected crimes in which a DNA match was available ('DNA detections') 17,607 
			 Additional detections arising from the DNA match(1) 14,602 
			 Total detected crimes in which a DNA match was available or played a part 32,209 
			 Crimes where potential DNA material collected 99,402 
			 Proportion of 'crimes detected in which a DNA match was available' of 'crimes where potential DNA material collected' (percentage) 32.40 
			 (1 )Additional detections may result from the original crime with the DNA match due to the identification of further offences through forensic linkage or through admission by the offender.

Forensic Science Service

Lindsay Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the monetary value of work carried out at each UK Forensic Science Service centre in each of the last five years; and what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the centres in carrying out their work.

Alan Campbell: The Forensic Science Service Ltd. does not manage its revenue streams by individual sites but records its income across the company. The revenue figures from 5 December 2005, when the company was vested as a Government-owned company are:
	5 December 2005 to 31 March 2007: 210,449,000
	1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008: 138,001,000.
	Performance by the company as a whole and at individual sites are matters for company management. The ability of the company to meet the required standards is governed by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service.

Identity and Passport Service: Absenteeism

Pete Wishart: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many staff absences there were in the Identity and Passport Service in each month of the last 12 years.

Phil Woolas: The available information is given in the following tables.
	IPS can only provide monthly sickness statistics for two years as we do not have cleansed and validated figures for the rest of the period. Due to elapsed time, we cannot convert the raw data into a suitable format without incurring disproportionate cost.
	Figures for staff employed shown are FTE (full-time equivalents) which are the data readily available, representing permanent IPS staff. The General Register Office (GRO) became part of IPS with effect from April 2008 when it moved from the Office for National Statistics. The figures that have been supplied do not include GRO as the staff records for these staff were not migrated onto the IPS system until 1 April 2009.
	
		
			  Identity and passport service (IPS): Record of staff on sick leave for the latest rolling year 
			H.Q.  London  Liverpool  Peterborough  Newport  Glasgow  Belfast  Durham  ION  Total 
			  2007
			 May Staff in post (FTE) 473.80 314.10 436.44 550.75 364.93 265.98 165.93 689.70 94.24 3,355.89 
			  Sick leave staff days (FTE) 346.62 445.33 453.94 566.75 427.81 437.88 136.09 620.60  3,435.01 
			  Average sick leave per person(1) 0.73 1.42 1.04 1.03 1.17 1.65 0.82 0.90  1.02 
			 
			 June Staff in post (FTE) 481.48 319.34 439.40 548.97 361.49 263.36 166.13 678.71 163.89 3,422.77 
			  Sick leave staff days (FTE) 309.83 391.47 451.88 536.68 465.88 373.43 153.49 620.30 1.00 3,303.96 
			  Average sick leave per person(1) 0.64 1.23 1.03 0.98 1.29 1.42 0.92 0.91 0.01 0.97 
			 
			 July Staff in post (FTE) 492.60 318.48 436.35 545.18 357.88 261.01 166.93 671.73 228.05 3,478.21 
			  Sick leave staff days (FTE) 359.75 440.66 478.93 625.78 430.37 350.72 144.35 592.61 76.15 3,499.32 
			  Average sick leave per person(1) 0.73 1.38 1.10 1.15 1.20 1.34 0.86 0.88 0.33 1.01 
			 
			 August Staff in post (FTE) 504.11 314.01 426.29 538.47 356.56 260.85 165.78 668.64 283.38 3,518.10 
			  Sick leave staff days (FTE) 342.76 445.01 526.06 557.12 518.77 315.40 147.82 675.81 89.14 3,617.89 
			  Average sick leave per person(1) 0.68 1.42 1.23 1.03 1.45 1.21 0.89 1.01 0.31 1.03 
			 
			 September Staff in post (FTE) 526.70 311.36 430.96 534.16 352.84 250.29 164.84 661.76 327.76 3,560.67 
			  Sick leave staff days (FTE) 235.16 311.64 400.36 426.49 386.62 247.17 177.03 580.02 85.89 2,850.38 
			  Average sick leave per person(1) 0.45 1.00 0.93 0.80 1.10 0.99 1.07 0.88 0.26 0.80 
			 
			 October Staff in post (FTE) 552.77 287.92 409.57 523.16 338.78 240.79 157.76 646.19 396.00 3,552.95 
			  Sick leave staff days (FTE) 337.23 412.99 456.35 571.92 487.01 279.48 239.74 697.76 130.22 3,612.70 
			  Average sick leave per person(1) 0.61 1.43 1.11 1.09 1.44 1.16 1.52 1.08 0.33 1.02 
			 
			 November Staff in post (FTE) 558.77 288.67 411.42 520.16 337.30 244.79 159.76 643.41 425.31 3,589.59 
			  Sick leave staff days (FTE) 376.34 432.14 532.15 534.80 368.23 338.08 217.26 680.13 140.99 3,620.12 
			  Average sick leave per person(1) 0.67 1.50 1.29 1.03 1.09 1.38 1.36 1.06 0.33 1.01 
			 
			 December Staff in post (FTE) 563.37 295.37 408.96 505.11 339.58 239.79 158.96 646.41 432.75 3,590.30 
			  Sick leave staff days (FTE) 394.16 291.61 466.73 464.51 297.89 318.09 126.99 687.24 264.70 3,311.92 
			  Average sick leave per person(1) 0.70 0.99 1.14 0.92 0.88 1.33 0.80 1.06 0.61 0.92 
			 
			  2008
			 January Staff in post (FTE) 584.51 290.74 418.97 520.16 334.69 237.97 161.87 634.10 453.25 3,636.26 
			  Sick leave staff days (FTE) 386.78 350.89 506.71 481.52 505.83 285.88 167.51 836.83 334.55 3,856.50 
			  Average sick leave per person(1) 0.66 1.21 1.21 0.93 1.51 1.20 1.03 1.32 0.74 1.06 
			 
			 February Staff in post (FTE) 589.82 281.49 410.06 513.17 334.41 236.02 161.33 626.20 454.40 3,606.90 
			  Sick leave staff days (FTE) 363.11 339.38 462.04 477.04 363.80 251.73 227.96 581.31 293.97 3,360.33 
			  Average sick leave per person(1) 0.62 1.21 1.13 0.93 1.09 1.07 1.41 0.93 0.65 0.93 
			 
			 March Staff in post (FTE) 598.46 285.83 406.03 512.48 322.88 229.32 161.26 625.79 468.69 3,610.74 
			  Sick leave staff days (FTE) 296.82 317.40 444.07 335.00 300.76 234.08 195.32 578.34 347.01 3,048.80 
			  Average sick leave per person(1) 0.50 1.11 1.09 0.65 0.93 1.02 1.21 0.92 0.74 0.84 
			 
			 April Staff in post (FTE) 637.10 282.63 406.54 506.48 320.58 217.34 160.26 624.58 475.45 3,630.96 
			  Sick leave staff days (FTE) 419.35 405.68 515.75 458.00 299.42 224.58 123.56 690.29 446.06 3,582.69 
			  Average sick leave per person(1) 0.66 1.44 1.27 0.90 0.93 1.03 0.77 1.11 0.94 0.99 
			 
			 12 month Staff divided by 12 months 546.96 299.16 420.08 526.52 343.49 245.63 162.57 651.43 350.26 3,546.11 
			  Total sick leave staff days 4,167.90 4,584.19 5,694.97 6,035.61 4,852.39 3,656.52 2,057.12 7,841.24 2,209.69 41,099.63 
			  Average sick leave per person(1) 7.62 15.32 13.56 11.46 14.13 14.89 12.65 12.04 6.31 11.59 
			 (1) Totals show sick leave staff days divided by staff in post 
		
	
	
		
			  Identity and passport service (IPS): Record of staff on sick absence for the latest rolling year 
			H.Q.  London  Liverpool  Peterborough  Newport  Glasgow  Belfast  Durham  ION  Total 
			  2008
			 April Staff in post (FTE) 637.10 282.63 406.54 506.48 320.58 217.34 160.26 624.58 475.45 3,630.96 
			  Sick absence staff days (FTE) 419.35 405.68 515.75 458.00 299.42 224.58 123.56 690.29 446.06 3,582.69 
			  Average sick absence per person(1) 0.66 1.44 1.27 0.90 0.93 1.03 0.77 1.11 0.94 0.99 
			 
			 May Staff in post (FTE) 630.39 278.86 404.99 502.84 319.48 212.74 160.43 620.77 474.84 3,605.34 
			  Sick absence staff days (FTE) 426.10 339.83 383.10 585.55 306.42 250.28 111.90 630.83 363.21 3,397.22 
			  Average sick absence per person(1) 0.68 1.22 0.95 1.16 0.96 1.18 0.70 1.02 0.76 0.94 
			 
			 June Staff in post (FTE) 650.28 293.18 405.58 500.89 320.39 213.20 162.67 619.53 472.21 3,637.92 
			  Sick absence staff days (FTE) 389.87 356.73 359.11 569.68 376.38 198.61 168.72 584.51 234.32 3,237.93 
			  Average sick absence per person(1) 0.60 1.22 0.89 1.14 1.17 0.93 1.04 0.94 0.50 0.89 
			 
			 July Staff in post (FTE) 653.20 299.44 412.90 497.89 325.80 211.66 162.67 620.50 497.41 3,681.47 
			  Sick absence staff days (FTE) 515.70 406.30 410.72 541.86 420.15 239.64 125.92 655.41 302.01 3,617.71 
			  Average sick absence per person(1) 0.79 1.36 0.99 1.09 1.29 1.13 0.77 1.06 0.61 0.98 
			 
			 August Staff in post (FTE) 658.06 298.37 411.69 500.64 320.79 207.91 163.67 616.73 477.40 3,655.26 
			  Sick absence staff days (FTE) 352.86 421.09 352.52 484.38 313.12 227.42 68.70 589.54 328.49 3,138.12 
			  Average sick absence per person(1) 0.54 1.41 0.86 0.97 0.98 1.09 0.42 0.96 0.69 0.86 
			 
			 September Staff in post (FTE) 674.41 294.33 406.12 496.28 322.10 201.97 164.91 607.36 475.17 3,642.65 
			  Sick absence staff days (FTE) 446.92 358.26 304.91 557.27 279.53 268.29 64.47 623.65 333.56 3,236.86 
			  Average sick absence per person(1) 0.66 1.22 0.75 1.12 0.87 1.33 0.39 1.03 0.70 0.89 
			 
			 October Staff in post (FTE) 698.62 268.33 401.22 493.08 320.79 184.58 164.91 599.24 464.58 3,595.35 
			  Sick absence staff days (FTE) 573.86 257.16 393.84 519.75 368.34 326.31 100.50 581.41 338.29 3,459.46 
			  Average sick absence per person(1) 0.82 0.96 0.98 1.05 1.15 1.77 0.61 0.97 0.73 0.96 
			 
			 November Staff in post (FTE) 724.69 258.19 396.98 492.73 320.16 165.92 164.86 591.56 461.07 3,576.17 
			  Sick absence staff days (FTE) 609.01 220.60 392.10 375.31 324.37 307.33 119.58 520.68 271.33 3,140.31 
			  Average sick absence per person(1) 0.84 0.85 0.99 0.76 1.01 1.85 0.73 0.88 0.59 0.88 
			 
			 December Staff in post (FTE) 717.69 259.90 392.98 488.39 321.49 152.42 164.86 596.30 460.19 3,554.22 
			  Sick absence staff days (FTE) 754.57 168.22 420.42 529.24 311.02 253.74 136.68 653.14 320.49 3,547.52 
			  Average sick absence per person(1) 1.05 0.65 1.07 1.08 0.97 1.66 0.83 1.10 0.70 1.00 
			 
			  2009
			 January Staff in post (FTE) 705.52 262.00 390.98 488.66 316.33 143.89 164.09 607.96 458.57 3,538.00 
			  Sick absence staff days (FTE) 321.82 146.37 289.92 507.24 299.17 209.53 96.64 615.12 319.98 2,805.79 
			  Average sick absence per person(1) 0.46 0.56 0.74 1.04 0.95 1.46 0.59 1.01 0.70 0.79 
			 
			 February Staff in post (FTE) 707.99 256.75 386.22 483.00 315.79 110.54 163.14 604.74 456.82 3,484.99 
			  Sick absence staff days (FTE) 220.38 138.08 300.35 398.75 256.21 140.33 75.61 489.57 201.82 2,221.10 
			  Average sick absence per person(1) 0.31 0.54 0.78 0.83 0.81 1.27 0.46 0.81 0.44 0.64 
			 
			 March Staff in post (FTE) 781.58 256.75 389.57 461.63 316.14 104.20 149.45 589.76 454.60 3,503.68 
			  Sick absence staff days (FTE) 356.65 168.10 295.84 377.47 308.96 68.50 93.65 439.07 275.10 2,383.33 
			  Average sick absence per person(1) 0.46 0.65 0.76 0.82 0.98 0.66 0.63 0.74 0.61 0.68 
			 
			  Staff divided by 12 months 686.63 275.73 400.48 492.71 319.99 177.20 162.16 608.25 469.03 3,592.17 
			  Total sick absence staff days 5,387.08 3,386.42 4,418.57 5,904.50 3,863.09 2,714.57 1,285.93 7,073.22 3,734.65 37,768.03 
			  Average sick absence per person(1) 7.85 12.28 11.03 11.98 12.07 15.32 7.93 11.63 7.96 10.5 
			 
			  Annual target (days) 10.50 10.50 10.50 10.50 10.50 10.50 10.50 10.50 10.50 10.50 
			  Annual variance (days) 2.7 -1.8 -0.5 -1.5 -1.6 -4.8 2.6 -1.1 2.5 -0.0 
			  Annual percentage variance (2)25 (3)-17 (3)-5 (3)-14 (3)-15 (3)-46 (2)24 (3)-11 (2)24 (3)0 
			 (1) Totals show sick absence staff days divided by staff in post (2) Within YTD target (3) Outside YTD target  Note: IPS currently reports on staff by: Regional passport office locations (Liverpool, Peterborough, Glasgow, Belfast, London, Durham, Newport) Interview office network (ION)as sites are so small, all offices are grouped together in one single report Headquarters (HQ)this will included headquarters staff who are located outside London General Register's Office for England and Wales (GRO)

Police: Enfield

Joan Ryan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many  (a) police officers and  (b) police community safety officers there were in Enfield North constituency in each year since 1997.

David Hanson: Police personnel statistics are not collected by parliamentary constituency. Enfield is a basic command unit (BCU) within the Metropolitan police. Police personnel statistics were not collected at BCU level until 2002-03.
	Data by police force area, with some breakdown by basic command unit (BCU) are National Statistics and are published annually in the Police Service Strength Statistical Bulletin, available on the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics website and the House of Commons Library. The relevant weblinks for the current year's data and a table for the previous years' data for the BCU of Enfield are provided for my right hon. Friend's convenience.
	http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/policeorg1.html
	http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs09/hosb1309.pdf
	http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb0808add_tab.xls
	
		
			  Police officer strength (FTE)( 1)  and police community support officer strength (FTE)( 1)  for the basic command unit of Enfield( 2) 
			   Officers  PCSOs 
			 2003 490  
			 2004 538  
			 2005 575  
			 2006 560  
			 2007(3) 582 119 
			 2008 546 134 
			 (1) These figures are based on full-time equivalents that have been rounded to the nearest whole number, due to rounding there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of constituent items. Figures include those officers on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. (2) Figures as at 31 March in each of the given years. (3) 2006-07 is the first year that that police community support officer strength by basic command unit has been collected centrally.

UK Border Agency: Pay

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was paid in bonuses to  (a) directors,  (b) senior managers,  (c) specialist and delivery managers and  (d) executive support and administration staff in the UK Border Agency in each of the last five years.

Phil Woolas: Please see the following tables for a breakdown of bonuses paid to UK Border Agency staff, including front-line officers, within the last five financial years.
	I also refer the hon. Gentlemen to the previous answer provided on 29 June 2009,  Official Report, columns 78-80W, which shows that the size of the UK Border Agency staff ranges between 15,370 and 18,838 during these years. At the same time we have also integrated the functions of the Border and Immigration Agency, UK Visas and HMRC functions at the border and now have a presence in 135 countries around the world.
	The level of bonuses paid to staff in 2008-09 represents less than 0.23 per cent. of the Agency's net out-turn (budget minus income). Bonuses are only given to those who have performed to a high standard and have delivered the Agency's public commitments.
	
		
			  Financial year 2004-05 
			  Civil service grade (and equivalent)  Total amount by grade  () 
			 Administrative assistant (and equivalent) 35,651.43 
			 Administrative officer (and equivalent) 147,767.80 
			 Executive officer (and equivalent) 717,792.59 
			 Higher executive officer (and equivalent) 463,624.29 
			 Senior executive officer (and equivalent) 347,119.91 
			 Grade 7 191,648.15 
			 Grade 6 83,213.00 
			 Senior civil service 29,954.00 
			 Grand total 2,016,771.17 
		
	
	
		
			  Financial year 2005-06 
			  Civil service grade (and equivalent)  Total amount by g rade  () 
			 Administrative assistant (and equivalent) 88,988.16 
			 Administrative officer (and equivalent) 271,638.77 
			 Executive officer (and equivalent) 1,157,190.18 
			 Higher executive officer (and equivalent) 688,560.92 
			 Senior executive officer (and equivalent) 482,884.07 
			 Grade 7 257,919.28 
			 Grade 6 123,956.00 
			 Senior civil service 40,474.00 
			 Grand total 3,111,611.38 
		
	
	
		
			  Financial year 2006-07 
			  Civil service grade (and equivalent)  Total amount by g rade  () 
			 Administrative assistant (and equivalent) 119,325.46 
			 Administrative officer (and equivalent) 352,503.81 
			 Executive officer (and equivalent) 1,385,240.37 
			 Higher executive officer (and equivalent) 801,067.68 
			 Senior executive officer (and equivalent) 513,648.95 
			 Grade 7 274,715.86 
			 Grade 6 170,090.32 
			 Senior civil service 61,939.86 
			 Grand total 3,678,532.31 
		
	
	
		
			  Financial year 2007-08 
			  Civil service grade (and equivalent)  Total amount by g rade  () 
			 Administrative assistant (and equivalent) 88,370.88 
			 Administrative officer (and equivalent) 292,742.55 
			 Executive officer (and equivalent) 909,644.96 
			 Higher executive officer (and equivalent) 553,174.23 
			 Senior executive officer (and equivalent) 478,373.77 
			 Grade 7 265,220.03 
			 Grade 6 179,649.74 
			 Senior civil service 295,992.68 
			 Grand total 3,063,168.84 
		
	
	
		
			  Financial year 2008-09 
			  Civil service grade (and equivalent)  Total amount by g rade  () 
			 Administrative assistant (and equivalent) 96,893.16 
			 Administrative officer (and equivalent) 366,301.71 
			 Executive officer (and equivalent) 1,098,218.29 
			 Higher executive officer (and equivalent) 626,261.21 
			 Senior executive officer (and equivalent) 456,418.16 
			 Grade 7 287,680.19 
			 Grade 6 154,825.77 
			 Senior civil service 343,605.08 
			 Grand total 3,430,203.57

Academies: Sponsorship

Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 
	(1)  for which academies an element of the committed sponsorship has been paid in kind;
	(2)  what audit mechanism is used to assess the monetary value of sponsorship provided in kind for academies;
	(3)  which academies have received their pledged sponsorship in full in cash.

Vernon Coaker: The following table identifies academies where sponsorship is a contribution to capital costs and the Department has evidence of receipt that the contribution has been paid in full. There may be cases where further sponsorship payments have already been received by the Academy Trust but not yet reported to the Department.
	
		
			  Traditionally procurement academies where sponsorship has been received in full 
			 Lambeth West London (Ealing) 
			 Sheffield Springs John Madejski (Reading) 
			 Sheffield Park The Bridge (Hackney) 
			 The King's (Middlesbrough) Petchey (Hackney) 
			 Trinity - Doncaster North Liverpool 
			 Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham St Matthew (Lewisham ) 
			 Haberdashers' Knights Langley (Slough) 
			 Marlowe (Kent) Leigh Technology (Kent) 
			 Walsall Merchants' Withywood 
			 Grace Solihull Excelsior (Newcastle) 
			 Burlington Danes Corby Business 
			 King Solomon Academy Westminster Landau Forte College (Derby) 
			 City of London Southwark City of London (Islington COLA -1) 
			 Bexley Business Folkestone 
			 City Academy Hackney (COLA - H) North Oxfordshire 
			 Wren (Barnet)  
		
	
	The only Endowment Sponsorship Academy where sponsorship is in the form of contributions to an endowment fund, and has been reported to the Department as having been received in full is the Marsh Academy (Kent). As with the first category, there may be cases where further sponsorship has already been received by the Academy Trust but not yet reported to the Department.
	Sponsorship in kind is additional to formal sponsorship requirements, the Department does not therefore keep records of it.
	In-kind sponsorship received by academies is recorded in their annual financial statements which are subject to external audit. The external auditor will certify, among other things, whether the financial statements give a true and fair view of the academy's incoming resources.

Departmental Public Expenditure

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which line items in table 8.4 of his Department's annual report for 2009, indents the funding allocation for  (a) extended schoolssustainability and  (b) extended schools-subsidy elements of the Standards Fund 2010-11 Allocations spreadsheet published on the Teachernet website.

Diana Johnson: The funding allocation for extended schools is included in the Departmental Annual Report 2009, Table 8.4, within the line Schools, Other Standards Funds.

Departmental Public Expenditure

David Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much he expects his Department to spend on supporting its national strategies in each of the next two years; and if he will make a statement.

Vernon Coaker: In the current year we have committed 390 million to National Strategies programmes. This includes the development and delivery of free resources to schools through the National Strategies contract as well as support to local authorities and schools to enable them to access the strategies' training and intervention programmes.
	Expenditure for 2010-11 has yet to be determined and will depend upon the priorities set in the National Strategies Annual Plan which we hope to agree in December. We have already announced that the National Strategies contract will not be renewed when it comes to an end in March 2011. Instead, we will be placing resources directly into the hands of schools, giving them greater freedom to determine their improvement needs and to secure the most appropriate support.

Departmental Public Expenditure

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much has been allocated to the Youth of Today programme in each of the next five years, and under which budgetary headings such expenditure falls.

Vernon Coaker: The allocation for The Youth of Today programme is 3,416,000 in FY 2009-10 and 2,671,000 in FY 2010-11.
	These costs are to deliver a fellowship programme; ministerial shadowing scheme; a local shadowing scheme; a young leader's campaign; stimulate the youth leadership sector and create a leadership progression framework; deliver a 1 million grant opportunity scheme; promote leadership in education; connect international best practice and provide youth led support and challenge to government and public services.

European Schools: Finance

Tim Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the cost to the public purse was of payments to European Schools in respect of  (a) teachers' salaries and  (b) other support in the last year for which figures are available.

Vernon Coaker: In the 2008-09 financial year the cost was  (a) circa 8,901,000 for teachers' salaries and  (b) circa 943,000 for other support.

Family Proceedings

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children involved in Children Act proceedings in each court area are awaiting the appointment of a guardian ad litem; and what the average waiting time in each such area was in the latest period for which figures are available.

Dawn Primarolo: The information requested is set out in the following table.
	
		
			  Court circuit  Cases awaiting allocation (at 15 September)  Total children  Average waiting time for cases received April to August 2009 (working days) 
			 London 174 272 27.2 
			 Midlands 34 59 12.2 
			 North East 230 364 4.9 
			 North West 296 513 21.4 
			 South East 65 110 12.9 
			 South West 117 180 9.2 
			 Total 916 1,498 13.4 
		
	
	There are 916 cases awaiting allocation which represents 6.9 per cent. of Cafcass' total open public law workload. All of these cases have been reviewed, prioritised and screened for risk and this is a continuous process until substantive allocation takes place. This Department has asked Cafcass to take urgent action to tackle the unallocated cases and has made available additional resources of up to 1.6 million in this financial year to do so.

Gifted Children: Finance

David Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department has spent on the gifted and talented programme in 2008-09; and if he will make a statement.

Diana Johnson: The Department spent 17.5 million on the gifted and talented programme in the financial year 2008-09.

Nurseries: West Yorkshire

John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many nursery nurses per head of population there were in  (a) Leeds West constituency,  (b) the City of Leeds and  (c) West Yorkshire in each year since 2005.

Dawn Primarolo: This data is not available. However, national data on the numbers and characteristics of staff in the child care and early years workforce is collected through the Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey. The latest survey to be published in the series is for 2008 and was published at the end of September 2009. This can be found at the following website address:
	http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/research/programmeofresearch/projectinformation.cfm?projectld=14590type=5resultspage=1

Primary Education: Finance

Paul Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many local authorities have applied for safety valve funding to meet increased demand for primary school places; how much has been allocated in each case; what steps he is taking to review the criteria used to make such allocations; and if he will make a statement.

Vernon Coaker: We are currently appraising the 51 applications we have received for the 200 million of capital funding we have secured as an interim measure to support authorities which forecast exceptional growth in demand for primary school places by 2011. In considering these applications, we have had discussions with a range of local authorities and with representative bodies including London councils and the Local Government Association, to consider the criteria we have used. Our aim is to ensure that this funding is fairly allocated to those authorities with the highest need, where funding the additional places from other resources would unduly impact on other priorities. We aim shortly to announce allocations. We are also, in the context of the next spending review, working on how to ensure that in the longer term there are high quality permanent pupil places where they are wanted.

Pupils: Per Capita Costs

John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the per pupil funding for  (a) primary and  (b) secondary school children in Leeds West constituency was in each of the last five years.

Vernon Coaker: The Department allocates education funding to local authorities so the requested information for Leeds West constituency is not available. The per pupil revenue funding figures for primary and secondary school pupils for Leeds local authority in 2004-05 and 2005-06 are as follows. These figures are in real terms:
	
		
			  Real terms revenue funding per pupil ()EFS plus grants 
			   2004-05  2005-06 
			   Primary (aged 3-10)  Secondary(aged 11-15)  Primary(aged 3-10)  Secondary(aged 11-15) 
			 Leeds local authority 3,790 4,870 4,020 5,100 
			  Notes: 1. Price base: Real terms at 2008-09 prices, based on GDP deflators as at 30 June 2009 2. Figures reflect relevant sub-blocks of education formula spending (EFS) settlements and include the pensions transfer to EFS. 3. Total funding also includes all revenue grants in DfES departmental expenditure limits relevant to pupils aged three-15 and exclude education maintenance allowances (EMAs) and grants not allocated at LEA level. 4. The pupil numbers used to convert  million figures to  per pupil are those underlying the EFS settlement calculations. 5. Rounding: Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 
		
	
	The revenue per pupil figures shown in the following table are taken from the new Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG). They are not comparable with those for the years 2004-05 to 2005-06 because the introduction of the DSG in 2006-07 fundamentally changed how local authorities are funded.
	The 2004-05 to 2005-06 figures are based on education formula spending (EFS) which formed the education part of the local government finance settlement, plus various grants. This was an assessment of what local authorities needed to fund education rather than what they spent. The DSG, which has been in place since 2006-07 is based largely on an authority's previous spending. In addition, the DSG has a different coverage to EFS. EFS comprised a schools block and an LEA block (to cover
	LEA central functions) whereas DSG only covers the school block. LEA block items are still funded through DCLG's local government finance settlement but education items cannot be separately identified. Consequently, there is a break in the Department's time series as the two sets of data are not comparable.
	To provide a comparison for 2006-07 DSG, the Department have isolated the schools block equivalent funding in 2005-06; as described above this does not represent the totality of 'education' funding in that year.
	The per pupil revenue funding figures for years 2005-06 (baseline) to 2008-09 for Leeds local authority are provided in the table below. As the DSG is a mechanism for distributing funding, a split between primary and secondary schools is not available. The figures as follows are for all funded pupils aged three-19 and are in real terms:
	
		
			  Real terms revenue funding per pupil ()DSG plus grants pupils aged three-19 
			   2005-06 (Baseline)  2006-07  2007-08  2008-09 
			 Leeds local authority 4,290 4,390 4,540 4,620 
			  Notes: 1. This covers funding through the dedicated schools grant, school standards grant, school standards grant (personalisation) and standards fund as well as funding from the Learning and Skills Council; it excludes grants which are not allocated at LA level. 2. Price base: Real terms at 2008-09 prices, based on GDP deflators as at 30 June 2009. 3. These figures are for all funded pupils aged three-19. 4. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10 5. Some of the grant allocations have not been finalised. If these do change, the effect on the funding figures is expected to be minimal. Figures are not yet available for 2009-10

School Improvement and Targets Unit: Finance

David Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the annual cost of the School Improvement and Targets Unit was in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

Vernon Coaker: The annual staffing cost of the School Improvement and Targets Unit in the 2007/08 financial year was 2,183,340. This was the last year that the unit was in existence as there was a reorganisation of departmental policy teams in 2008.
	The unit was responsible for the New Relationship with Schools programme, schools causing concern, local authority and school target setting, the Achievement and Attainment Tables, RAISEonline and pupil assessment.

Schools: Standards

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 2 June 2009,  Official Report, column 442W, on schools: standards, for what reasons comparable information for each year since 1997 is not available; and for which years comparable information is available.

Vernon Coaker: The information provided in the answer of 2 June 2009 was based on a review of the department's field forces, providing support and challenge to LAs, conducted in autumn 2008. Comparable information is not available for other years since this was a one-off exercise and no equivalent exercise had been conducted in previous years. Information about the numbers and costs of all field forces has not been routinely recorded centrally for each year since 1997. To collect this information retrospectively would exceed the cost threshold of 750 applicable to central Government.

Specialist School and Academies Trust: Finance

David Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the income of the Specialist School and Academies Trust  (a) was in each year from 1999 to 2000 to 2007-08 and  (b) is planned to be in each year from 2008-09 to 2010-11, from (i) central Government grants, (ii) subscriptions from schools, (iii) private sector donations and (iv) other income; and if he will make a statement.

Vernon Coaker: The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) is an independent registered charity which receives income from a range of sources. As such, DCSF does not have responsibility for monitoring its income. Audited accounts are published and available from the Charity Commission.
	The DCSF funds SSAT through a range of grants and contracts to support the Specialist Schools and Academies Programmes and a range of other activities designed to raise pupil achievement. The total financial contributions made by DCSF and its predecessors to SSAT over the last eight years for which we have final information are: 2.395 million in 2001-02; 4.371 million in 2002-03; 11.326 million in 2003-04; 17.796 million in 2004-05; 24.350 million in 2005-06; 35.152 million in 2006-07, 43.578 million in 2007-08 and 29.700 million in 2008-09.
	This includes both grants and contracts. DCSF negotiates funding levels each year for individual grants and contracts. We are not in a position to estimate what the level of funding will be in future yearsthis will depend on our priorities at the time.

Youth of Today Programme

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many young people were involved in the Summer 2009 fellowship operated by his Department's Youth of Today programme; what the cost of each fellowship was; what was required of each fellow; and whether he plans to publish an assessment of the effectiveness of the programme.

Vernon Coaker: 165 young people attended the TYOT Fellowship summer residential. An additional 111 young people will be participating in the Fellowship local groups, along with those that participated in the residential, over the course of the next year. The cost of delivering this years fellowship is 617,111.
	The requirements for the Fellows are to develop as young leaders within their community; take action through a programme of local group activity; influence others to make positive change locally, nationally and globally; and to complete 1,000 Positive Actions by the end of their Fellowship experience.
	The effectiveness of the programme will be assessed through an external evaluation of The Youth of Today programme.